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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2020-06-03 13:28:45 -0700
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2020-07-16 12:32:26 -0700
commitfea1120c56e2d5db1cfea67d455edea3f4f97947 (patch)
treee38e912036167ddca003347353221935eb1da9c3 /mm
parent4df7a75f690a2651d766cc45d442824b955f9e4b (diff)
mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
Using uninitialized_var() is dangerous as it papers over real bugs[1] (or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings (e.g. "unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized, either simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes. As a precursor to removing[2] this[3] macro[4], just initialize this variable to NULL. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@google.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@mail.gmail.com/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/ Fixes: 399145f9eb6c ("mm/debug: add tests validating architecture page table helpers") Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
index 61ab16fb2e36..d315ff544f05 100644
--- a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
+++ b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ static int __init debug_vm_pgtable(void)
phys_addr_t paddr;
unsigned long vaddr, pte_aligned, pmd_aligned;
unsigned long pud_aligned, p4d_aligned, pgd_aligned;
- spinlock_t *uninitialized_var(ptl);
+ spinlock_t *ptl = NULL;
pr_info("Validating architecture page table helpers\n");
prot = vm_get_page_prot(VMFLAGS);