Re: [PATCH] cgroup: Fix uninitialized variable warning

[Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 04:35:19PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Ross.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 02:30:40PM -0700, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> >  static int mem_cgroup_can_attach(struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
> >  {
> >  	struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
> > -	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> > +	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL;
> 
> It's one thing to add spurious init to shut up gcc
> 
> > @@ -4805,7 +4805,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_can_attach(struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
> >  		p = leader;
> >  		memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css);
> >  	}
> > -	if (!p)
> > +	if (!p || !memcg)
> 
> and to another to add an additional processing on it.

Do you believe that the additional processing is incorrect?  If somehow we
*do* get through the above loop without setting memcg, the next deref will
OOPs the kernel...