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* [PATCH] pid: fix uninitialized var warnings
@ 2020-03-11 12:20 Walter Wu
  2020-03-11 12:24 ` Christian Brauner
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Walter Wu @ 2020-03-11 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton, Christian Brauner, Oleg Nesterov
  Cc: linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel, wsd_upstream, Walter Wu

Compiling with gcc-9.2.1 points out below warnings. Fix it.

kernel/pid.c: In function 'alloc_pid':
kernel/pid.c:180:10: warning: 'retval' may be used uninitialized
in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@mediatek.com>
---
 kernel/pid.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index ff6cd6786d10..02944cfd4e51 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -176,8 +176,10 @@ struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespace *ns, pid_t *set_tid,
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
 	pid = kmem_cache_alloc(ns->pid_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!pid)
+	if (!pid) {
+		retval = -ENOMEM;
 		return ERR_PTR(retval);
+	}
 
 	tmp = ns;
 	pid->level = ns->level;
-- 
2.18.0

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* Re: [PATCH] pid: fix uninitialized var warnings
  2020-03-11 12:20 [PATCH] pid: fix uninitialized var warnings Walter Wu
@ 2020-03-11 12:24 ` Christian Brauner
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christian Brauner @ 2020-03-11 12:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Walter Wu
  Cc: Andrew Morton, Christian Brauner, Oleg Nesterov, linux-kernel,
	linux-arm-kernel, wsd_upstream

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 08:20:49PM +0800, Walter Wu wrote:
> Compiling with gcc-9.2.1 points out below warnings. Fix it.
> 
> kernel/pid.c: In function 'alloc_pid':
> kernel/pid.c:180:10: warning: 'retval' may be used uninitialized
> in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> 
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@mediatek.com>

Thanks. A correct fix for this is already in my tree:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux.git/commit/?h=fixes&id=10dab84caf400f2f5f8b010ebb0c7c4272ec5093
(Background is 
 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux.git/commit/?h=fixes&id=b26ebfe12f34f372cf041c6f801fa49c3fb382c5
 )

 Christian

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