From: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Correctly dereference flags when clearing unused variable.
Its probably unsafe to set the flags pointer to 0, since this will oops,
if it is dereferenced elsewhere for some odd reason.
Signed-off-by: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ static inline void __lock_cpu_pcp(unsign
{
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
spin_lock(&__get_cpu_lock(pcp_locks, cpu));
- flags = 0;
+ *flags = 0;
#else
local_irq_save(*flags);
#endif
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static inline void lock_cpu_pcp(unsigned
{
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
(void)get_cpu_var_locked(pcp_locks, this_cpu);
- flags = 0;
+ *flags = 0;
#else
local_irq_save(*flags);
*this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
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