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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] mm/hugetlb: fix warning in alloc_huge_page/dequeue_huge_page_vma
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:05:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120417140549.GJ2359@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120417122819.7438.26117.stgit@zurg>

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 04:28:19PM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> This patch fixes gcc warning (and bug?) introduced in linux-next commit cc9a6c877
> ("cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3")
> 
> Local variable "page" can be uninitialized if nodemask from vma policy does not
> intersects with nodemask from cpuset. Even if it wouldn't happens it's better to
> initialize this variable explicitly than to introduce kernel oops on weird corner case.
> 
> mm/hugetlb.c: In function ???alloc_huge_page???:
> mm/hugetlb.c:1135:5: warning: ???page??? may be used uninitialized in this function
> 
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-17 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-17 12:28 [PATCH linux-next] mm/hugetlb: fix warning in alloc_huge_page/dequeue_huge_page_vma Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-17 14:05 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2012-04-17 20:25 ` David Rientjes
2012-04-17 20:57 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-18  5:58   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov

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