Re: [PATCH] zswap: Avoid uninitialized use of ret in zswap_frontswap_store()

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On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 8:26 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Clang warns:
>
>   mm/zswap.c:1183:6: error: variable 'ret' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
>    1183 |         if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg))
>         |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>   mm/zswap.c:1327:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here
>    1327 |         return ret;
>         |                ^~~
>   mm/zswap.c:1183:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false
>    1183 |         if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg))
>         |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>    1184 |                 goto reject;
>         | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>   mm/zswap.c:1158:9: note: initialize the variable 'ret' to silence this warning
>    1158 |         int ret;
>         |                ^
>         |                 = 0
>   1 error generated.
>
> Set ret to -EINVAL, which seems to best match the situation the comment
> mentions and matches an earlier bailout due to an unsupported type or
> situation.

Shouldn't this be -ENOMEM? I think this was the error code returned in
this situation before 6804144bf1cf.

>
> Fixes: 6804144bf1cf ("zswap: do not shrink if cgroup may not zswap")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/202306011435.2BxsHFUE-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/202306012152.o4FL7Y6J-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1861
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/zswap.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
> index cff93643a6ab..e8313e2f5807 100644
> --- a/mm/zswap.c
> +++ b/mm/zswap.c
> @@ -1180,8 +1180,10 @@ static int zswap_frontswap_store(unsigned type, pgoff_t offset,
>          * local cgroup limits.
>          */
>         objcg = get_obj_cgroup_from_page(page);
> -       if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg))
> +       if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg)) {
> +               ret = -EINVAL;
>                 goto reject;
> +       }
>
>         /* reclaim space if needed */
>         if (zswap_is_full()) {
>
> ---
> base-commit: b2424568bd9b947b2698b693ff24fec63bb4b36a
> change-id: 20230601-zswap-cgroup-wsometimes-uninitialized-b549ff4247ed
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>





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