[PATCH] mm/ksm: return NULL when doesn't get mergeable page

[Jianguo Wu]

In get_mergeable_page() local variable page is not initialized,
it may hold a garbage value, when find_mergeable_vma() return NULL,
get_mergeable_page() may return a garbage value to the caller.

So initialize page as NULL.

Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/ksm.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index b6afe0c..87efbae 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ static struct page *get_mergeable_page(struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
 	struct mm_struct *mm = rmap_item->mm;
 	unsigned long addr = rmap_item->address;
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
-	struct page *page;
+	struct page *page = NULL;
 
 	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, addr);
-- 
1.7.1


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