The patch titled
Subject: mm/page_alloc: fix uninitialized variable
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-page_alloc-fix-uninitialized-variable.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-page_alloc-fix-uninitialized-variable.patch
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Hao Zhang <zhanghao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/page_alloc: fix uninitialized variable
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:41:29 +0800
The variable "compact_result" is not initialized in function
__alloc_pages_slowpath(). It causes should_compact_retry() to use an
uninitialized value.
Initialize variable "compact_result" with the value COMPACT_SKIPPED.
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xee8/0x16c0 mm/page_alloc.c:4416
__alloc_pages_slowpath+0xee8/0x16c0 mm/page_alloc.c:4416
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0xa4c/0xe00 mm/page_alloc.c:4752
alloc_pages_mpol+0x4cd/0x890 mm/mempolicy.c:2270
alloc_frozen_pages_noprof mm/mempolicy.c:2341 [inline]
alloc_pages_noprof mm/mempolicy.c:2361 [inline]
folio_alloc_noprof+0x1dc/0x350 mm/mempolicy.c:2371
filemap_alloc_folio_noprof+0xa6/0x440 mm/filemap.c:1019
__filemap_get_folio+0xb9a/0x1840 mm/filemap.c:1970
grow_dev_folio fs/buffer.c:1039 [inline]
grow_buffers fs/buffer.c:1105 [inline]
__getblk_slow fs/buffer.c:1131 [inline]
bdev_getblk+0x2c9/0xab0 fs/buffer.c:1431
getblk_unmovable include/linux/buffer_head.h:369 [inline]
ext4_getblk+0x3b7/0xe50 fs/ext4/inode.c:864
ext4_bread_batch+0x9f/0x7d0 fs/ext4/inode.c:933
__ext4_find_entry+0x1ebb/0x36c0 fs/ext4/namei.c:1627
ext4_lookup_entry fs/ext4/namei.c:1729 [inline]
ext4_lookup+0x189/0xb40 fs/ext4/namei.c:1797
__lookup_slow+0x538/0x710 fs/namei.c:1793
lookup_slow+0x6a/0xd0 fs/namei.c:1810
walk_component fs/namei.c:2114 [inline]
link_path_walk+0xf29/0x1420 fs/namei.c:2479
path_openat+0x30f/0x6250 fs/namei.c:3985
do_filp_open+0x268/0x600 fs/namei.c:4016
do_sys_openat2+0x1bf/0x2f0 fs/open.c:1428
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1443 [inline]
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1459 [inline]
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1454 [inline]
__x64_sys_openat+0x2a1/0x310 fs/open.c:1454
x64_sys_call+0x36f5/0x3c30 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:258
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Local variable compact_result created at:
__alloc_pages_slowpath+0x66/0x16c0 mm/page_alloc.c:4218
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0xa4c/0xe00 mm/page_alloc.c:4752
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/tencent_ED1032321D6510B145CDBA8CBA0093178E09@xxxxxx
Reported-by: syzbot+0cfd5e38e96a5596f2b6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0cfd5e38e96a5596f2b6
Signed-off-by: Hao Zhang <zhanghao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-fix-uninitialized-variable
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4243,6 +4243,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, u
restart:
compaction_retries = 0;
no_progress_loops = 0;
+ compact_result = COMPACT_SKIPPED;
compact_priority = DEF_COMPACT_PRIORITY;
cpuset_mems_cookie = read_mems_allowed_begin();
zonelist_iter_cookie = zonelist_iter_begin();
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from zhanghao1@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-page_alloc-fix-uninitialized-variable.patch
mm-vmscan-extract-calculated-pressure-balance-as-a-function.patch
