2023-07-28 09:44:26

by Simon Horman

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/49] mm: shrinker: remove redundant shrinker_rwsem in debugfs operations

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 04:04:17PM +0800, Qi Zheng wrote:
> The debugfs_remove_recursive() will wait for debugfs_file_put() to return,
> so the shrinker will not be freed when doing debugfs operations (such as
> shrinker_debugfs_count_show() and shrinker_debugfs_scan_write()), so there
> is no need to hold shrinker_rwsem during debugfs operations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
> ---
> mm/shrinker_debug.c | 14 --------------
> 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/shrinker_debug.c b/mm/shrinker_debug.c
> index 3ab53fad8876..f1becfd45853 100644
> --- a/mm/shrinker_debug.c
> +++ b/mm/shrinker_debug.c
> @@ -55,11 +55,6 @@ static int shrinker_debugfs_count_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> if (!count_per_node)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - ret = down_read_killable(&shrinker_rwsem);
> - if (ret) {
> - kfree(count_per_node);
> - return ret;
> - }
> rcu_read_lock();

Hi Qi Zheng,

As can be seen in the next hunk, this function returns 'ret'.
However, with this change 'ret' is uninitialised unless
signal_pending() returns non-zero in the while loop below.

This is flagged in a clan-16 W=1 build.

mm/shrinker_debug.c:87:11: warning: variable 'ret' is used uninitialized whenever 'do' loop exits because its condition is false [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
} while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL)) != NULL);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mm/shrinker_debug.c:92:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here
return ret;
^~~
mm/shrinker_debug.c:87:11: note: remove the condition if it is always true
} while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL)) != NULL);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1
mm/shrinker_debug.c:77:7: warning: variable 'ret' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
if (!memcg_aware) {
^~~~~~~~~~~~
mm/shrinker_debug.c:92:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here
return ret;
^~~
mm/shrinker_debug.c:77:3: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false
if (!memcg_aware) {
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mm/shrinker_debug.c:52:9: note: initialize the variable 'ret' to silence this warning
int ret, nid;
^
= 0

>
> memcg_aware = shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE;
> @@ -92,7 +87,6 @@ static int shrinker_debugfs_count_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL)) != NULL);
>
> rcu_read_unlock();
> - up_read(&shrinker_rwsem);
>
> kfree(count_per_node);
> return ret;

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