[PATCH] Fix uninitialized variable use inmm/memcontrol.c::mem_cgroup_move_parent()

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sat Jan 22 2011 - 14:51:08 EST


In mm/memcontrol.c::mem_cgroup_move_parent() there's a path that jumps to
the 'put_back' label
ret = __mem_cgroup_try_charge(NULL, gfp_mask, &parent, false, charge);
if (ret || !parent)
goto put_back;
where we'll
if (charge > PAGE_SIZE)
compound_unlock_irqrestore(page, flags);
but, we have not assigned anything to 'flags' at this point, nor have we
called 'compound_lock_irqsave()' (which is what sets 'flags').
So, I believe the 'put_back' label should be moved below the call to
compound_unlock_irqrestore() as per this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
memcontrol.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

compile tested only.

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index db76ef7..4fcf47a 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2292,9 +2292,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_parent(struct page_cgroup *pc,
ret = mem_cgroup_move_account(pc, child, parent, true, charge);
if (ret)
mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(parent, charge);
-put_back:
+
if (charge > PAGE_SIZE)
compound_unlock_irqrestore(page, flags);
+put_back:
putback_lru_page(page);
put:
put_page(page);


--
Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.chaosbits.net/
Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html
Plain text mails only, please.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/