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Commit a2362d24 authored by Michel Lespinasse's avatar Michel Lespinasse Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/fremap.c: fix possible oops on error path

The vm_flags introduced in 6d7825b1

 ("mm/fremap.c: fix oops on error
path") is supposed to avoid a compiler warning about unitialized
vm_flags without changing the generated code.

However I am concerned that this is going to be very brittle, and fail
with some compiler versions. The failure could be either of:

- compiler could actually load vma->vm_flags before checking for the
  !vma condition, thus reintroducing the oops

- compiler could optimize out the !vma check, since the pointer just got
  dereferenced shortly before (so the compiler knows it can't be NULL!)

I propose reversing this part of the change and initializing vm_flags to 0
just to avoid the bogus uninitialized use warning.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f4846e52
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