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[35.238.199.243]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u18sm1112124ilj.20.2021.05.17.07.39.22 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 17 May 2021 07:39:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 14:39:21 +0000 From: Dennis Zhou To: Tom Rix Cc: tj@kernel.org, cl@linux.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu: initialize best_upa variable Message-ID: References: <20210515180817.1751084-1-trix@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Authentication-Results: imf20.hostedemail.com; dkim=none; dmarc=fail reason="SPF not aligned (relaxed), No valid DKIM" header.from=kernel.org (policy=none); spf=pass (imf20.hostedemail.com: domain of dennisszhou@gmail.com designates 209.85.166.180 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=dennisszhou@gmail.com X-Rspamd-Server: rspam05 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: AC12F3DC X-Stat-Signature: 4age3to7cibonozb1fqddcsh5ngags3y X-HE-Tag: 1621262363-410242 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 06:17:47AM -0700, Tom Rix wrote: > > On 5/16/21 7:05 PM, Dennis Zhou wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 11:08:17AM -0700, trix@redhat.com wrote: > > > From: Tom Rix > > > > > > Static analysis reports this problem > > > percpu.c:2945:6: warning: Assigned value is garbage or undefined > > > upa = best_upa; > > > ^ ~~~~~~~~ > > > best_upa may not be set, so initialize it. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Tom Rix > > > --- > > > mm/percpu.c | 1 + > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > > > > diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c > > > index a257c3efdf18b..6578b706fae81 100644 > > > --- a/mm/percpu.c > > > +++ b/mm/percpu.c > > > @@ -2916,6 +2916,7 @@ static struct pcpu_alloc_info * __init __flatten pcpu_build_alloc_info( > > > * Related to atom_size, which could be much larger than the unit_size. > > > */ > > > last_allocs = INT_MAX; > > > + best_upa = max_upa; > > > for (upa = max_upa; upa; upa--) { > > > int allocs = 0, wasted = 0; > > > -- > > > 2.26.3 > > > > > I think the proper fix would be: > > > > best_upa = 0; > > I was looking for initializing with something that would work. > I think I prefer setting it to 0 because it forces the loop to have succeeded vs being able to bypass it if the for loop logic was changed. > > for (...) { } > > BUG_ON(!best_upa); > WARN_ON instead? This is initialization code. So if upa == 0, it really is a problem. Having 0 units per allocation is bogus. > > upa = best_upa; > > > > If you're fine with this I'll make the changes and apply it to > > for-5.13-fixes. > > > > Can you also tell me what static analysis tool produced this? I'm just a > > little curious because this code hasn't changed in several years so I'd > > have expected some static analyzer to have caught this by now. > > Clang 10 > > Tom > Thanks, Dennis