[merged mm-stable] selftests-mm-fix-a-possibly-uninitialized-warning-in-pkey-x86h.patch removed from -mm tree

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The quilt patch titled
     Subject: selftests/mm: fix a "possibly uninitialized" warning in pkey-x86.h
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     selftests-mm-fix-a-possibly-uninitialized-warning-in-pkey-x86h.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: selftests/mm: fix a "possibly uninitialized" warning in pkey-x86.h
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 00:16:33 -0700

This fixes a real bug, too, because xstate_size()  was assuming that
the stack variable xstate_size was initialized to zero. That's not
guaranteed nor even especially likely.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230606071637.267103-8-jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 tools/testing/selftests/mm/pkey-x86.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pkey-x86.h~selftests-mm-fix-a-possibly-uninitialized-warning-in-pkey-x86h
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pkey-x86.h
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ int pkey_reg_xstate_offset(void)
 	unsigned int ecx;
 	unsigned int edx;
 	int xstate_offset;
-	int xstate_size;
+	int xstate_size = 0;
 	unsigned long XSTATE_CPUID = 0xd;
 	int leaf;
 
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx are





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