The patch titled Subject: mm-sparsemem-fix-mem_section-will-never-be-null-gcc-12-warning-v2 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-sparsemem-fix-mem_section-will-never-be-null-gcc-12-warning-v2.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-sparsemem-fix-mem_section-will-never-be-null-gcc-12-warning-v2.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-sparsemem-fix-mem_section-will-never-be-null-gcc-12-warning-v2.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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-sparsemem-fix-mem_section-will-never-be-null-gcc-12-warning-v2 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220202003550.698768-1-longman@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 83e3c48729d9 ("mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y") Fixes: 3e347261a80b ("sparsemem extreme implementation") Reported-by: Justin Forbes <jforbes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h~mm-sparsemem-fix-mem_section-will-never-be-null-gcc-12-warning-v2 +++ a/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -1390,11 +1390,9 @@ static inline unsigned long *section_to_ static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr) { #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME - if (!*mem_section) + if (!*mem_section || !mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)]) return NULL; #endif - if (!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)]) - return NULL; return &mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK]; } extern size_t mem_section_usage_size(void); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from longman@xxxxxxxxxx are lib-vsprintf-avoid-redundant-work-with-0-size.patch mm-page_owner-use-scnprintf-to-avoid-excessive-buffer-overrun-check.patch mm-page_owner-print-memcg-information.patch mm-page_owner-record-task-command-name.patch mm-sparsemem-fix-mem_section-will-never-be-null-gcc-12-warning.patch mm-sparsemem-fix-mem_section-will-never-be-null-gcc-12-warning-v2.patch ipc-mqueue-use-get_tree_nodev-in-mqueue_get_tree.patch