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

Hi Simon,

On 2023/7/28 16:13, Simon Horman wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for your feedback, the 'ret' should be initialized to 0,
will fix it.

Thanks,
Qi

> 
> 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;
> 
> ...