On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > This patch fixes gcc warning (and bug?) introduced in linux-next commit cc9a6c877 > ("cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3") > > Local variable "page" can be uninitialized if nodemask from vma policy does not > intersects with nodemask from cpuset. Even if it wouldn't happens it's better to > initialize this variable explicitly than to introduce kernel oops on weird corner case. > > mm/hugetlb.c: In function a??alloc_huge_pagea??: > mm/hugetlb.c:1135:5: warning: a??pagea?? may be used uninitialized in this function > > Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov > Cc: Mel Gorman Acked-by: David Rientjes This isn't just in -next, it's also in Linus' tree and seems like 3.4-rc4 material to me.