mm: initialize return of vm_insert_pages
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PATCH v2 1/1 mm: initialize return of vm_insert_pages
From: Tom Rix <[email protected]>
clang static analysis reports a garbage return
In file included from mm/memory.c:84:mm/memory.c:1612:2: warning: Undefined or garbage value returned to caller [core.uninitialized.UndefReturn]
return err;
^~~~~~~~~~The setting of err depends on a loop executing.
So initialize err.
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v1 change err intializer to -EINVAL
mm/memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
mm/memory.c +1 -1
@@ -1601,7 +1601,7 @@ int vm_insert_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,return insert_pages (vma, addr, pages, num, vma->vm_page_prot);#else unsigned long idx =0 , pgcount = *num; -int err; +int err = -EINVAL ;for (; idx < pgcount; ++idx) { err =vm_insert_page (vma, addr + (PAGE_SIZE * idx), pages[idx]);
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Andrew Morton
maintainerQuoted 17 lines · On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 08:53:54 -0700 [email protected] wrote:
From: Tom Rix <[email protected]>
clang static analysis reports a garbage return
In file included from
mm/memory.c:84:mm/memory.c:1612:2: warning: Undefined or garbage value returned to caller [core.uninitialized.UndefReturn]return err; ^~~~~~~~~~The setting of err depends on a loop executing.
So initialize err....
mm/memory.c int vm_insert_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, · line 1607
Quoted 8 lines
mm/memory.c +1
-1@@ -1601,7 +1601,7 @@ int vm_insert_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,return insert_pages (vma, addr, pages, num, vma->vm_page_prot);#else unsigned long idx =0 , pgcount = *num; -int err; +int err = -EINVAL ;for (; idx < pgcount; ++idx) { err =vm_insert_page (vma, addr + (PAGE_SIZE * idx), pages[idx]);
If a caller were to ask vm_insert_pages() to insert zero pages, I suspect we should just return zero and set *num to zero.
Quoted 25 lines · Andrew Morton
Quoted 23 lines · On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 08:53:54 -0700 [email protected] wrote:
From: Tom Rix <[email protected]>
clang static analysis reports a garbage return
In file included from
mm/memory.c:84:mm/memory.c:1612:2: warning: Undefined or garbage value returned to caller [core.uninitialized.UndefReturn]return err; ^~~~~~~~~~The setting of err depends on a loop executing.
So initialize err....
mm/memory.c +1
-1@@ -1601,7 +1601,7 @@ int vm_insert_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,return insert_pages (vma, addr, pages, num, vma->vm_page_prot);#else unsigned long idx =0 , pgcount = *num; -int err; +int err = -EINVAL ;
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mm/memory.c int vm_insert_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, · line 1607
Quoted 2 lines
mm/memory.c +0
-0for (; idx < pgcount; ++idx) { err =vm_insert_page (vma, addr + (PAGE_SIZE * idx), pages[idx]);If a caller were to ask
vm_insert_pages()to insert zero pages, I suspect we should just return zero and set *num to zero.
That would be v1 of the patch.
For the loop to not execute *num/pgcount is initially 0, and *num = pgcount - idx is 0 on exit.