On 23.03.2017 16:17, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The latest gcc-7.0.1 snapshot reports a new warning:
>
> virtio/virtio_balloon.c: In function 'update_balloon_stats':
> virtio/virtio_balloon.c:258:26: error: 'events[2]' is used uninitialized in
> this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
> virtio/virtio_balloon.c:260:26: error: 'events[3]' is used uninitialized in
> this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
> virtio/virtio_balloon.c:261:56: error: 'events[18]' is used uninitialized in
> this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
> virtio/virtio_balloon.c:262:56: error: 'events[17]' is used uninitialized in
> this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
>
> This seems absolutely right, so we should add an extra check to
> prevent copying uninitialized stack data into the statistics.
> From all I can tell, this has been broken since the statistics code
> was originally added in 2.6.34.
>
> Fixes: 9564e138b1f6 ("virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon
> driver (V4)")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
> ---
> drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> index 4e1191508228..cd5c54e2003d 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> @@ -254,12 +254,14 @@ static void update_balloon_stats(struct virtio_balloon
> *vb)
>
> available = si_mem_available();
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
> update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_IN,
> pages_to_bytes(events[PSWPIN]));
> update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_OUT,
> pages_to_bytes(events[PSWPOUT]));
> update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MAJFLT, events[PGMAJFAULT]);
> update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MINFLT, events[PGFAULT]);
> +#endif
> update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMFREE,
> pages_to_bytes(i.freeram));
> update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT,
>
CC'ing Ladi
--
Thanks,
David
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