[PATCH] mm: remap_file_pages: initialize populate before usage

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Mon May 12 2014 - 08:41:15 EST


'populate' wasn't initialized before being used in error paths,
causing panics when mm_populate() would get called with invalid
values.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mmap.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 84dcfc7..2a0e0a8 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2591,7 +2591,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(remap_file_pages, unsigned long, start, unsigned long, size,

struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
- unsigned long populate;
+ unsigned long populate = 0;
unsigned long ret = -EINVAL;

pr_warn_once("%s (%d) uses deprecated remap_file_pages() syscall. "
--
1.7.10.4

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