Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: initiallize all new zap_details fields before use

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Sat Dec 19 2015 - 14:53:30 EST


On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 08:04:51PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Commit "mm, oom: introduce oom reaper" forgot to initialize the two new fields
> of struct zap_details in unmap_mapping_range(). This caused using stack garbage
> on the call to unmap_mapping_range_tree().
>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memory.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 206c8cd..0e32993 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -2431,6 +2431,7 @@ void unmap_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping,
> details.last_index = hba + hlen - 1;
> if (details.last_index < details.first_index)
> details.last_index = ULONG_MAX;
> + details.check_swap_entries = details.ignore_dirty = false;

Should we use c99 initializer instead to make it future-proof?

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Kirill A. Shutemov
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