The patch titled Subject: mm, oom: fix uninitialized ret in task_will_free_mem() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-oom-fix-uninitialized-ret-in-task_will_free_mem.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-oom-fix-uninitialized-ret-in-task_will_free_mem.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-oom-fix-uninitialized-ret-in-task_will_free_mem.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, oom: fix uninitialized ret in task_will_free_mem() mm/oom_kill.c: In function `task_will_free_mem': mm/oom_kill.c:767: warning: `ret' may be used uninitialized in this function If __task_will_free_mem() is never called inside the for_each_process() loop, ret will not be initialized. Fixes: 1af8bb43269563e4 ("mm, oom: fortify task_will_free_mem()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470255599-24841-1-git-send-email-geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom-fix-uninitialized-ret-in-task_will_free_mem mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom-fix-uninitialized-ret-in-task_will_free_mem +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ bool task_will_free_mem(struct task_stru { struct mm_struct *mm = task->mm; struct task_struct *p; - bool ret; + bool ret = true; /* * Skip tasks without mm because it might have passed its exit_mm and _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are slub-drop-bogus-inline-for-fixup_red_left.patch mm-oom-fix-uninitialized-ret-in-task_will_free_mem.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html