Dear Matthew, dear Liam,
The commit afcf76df48f9 ("mm/mlock: use vma iterator and maple state instead
of vma linked list") refactors the function count_mm_mlocked_page_nr() in
mm/mlock.c, such that the special case:
if (mm == NULL)
mm = current->mm;
is now dead code. Before the refactoring, after this if statement, the variable
mm was used further in vma = find_vma(mm, start) in the following line, but now,
with the introduction of VMA_ITERATOR(vmi, mm, start) before the if statement,
the assignment within the if statement is simply ignored.
I assume that:
- If the semantics of this function shall be preserved, the VMA_ITERATOR macro
needs to move after the if statement.
- or, if the consideration of the special case on mm == NULL is actually
obsolete with this refactoring, it could be simply deleted.
I will keep it up to you how this issue is correctly resolved.
This was discovered due to tracking all dead stores that clang-analyzer reports
on an x86 defconfig. The underlying issue here is more severe than "just a dead
store in the kernel code base", but it is probably easy for you to resolve.
Best regards,
Lukas
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