linux-next: build failure after merge of the mm-unstable tree

From: Mark Brown

Date: Wed Jun 03 2026 - 05:42:43 EST


Hi all,

After merging the mm-unstable tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
allmodconfig) failed like this:

/tmp/next/build/mm/khugepaged.c:1357:6: error: variable 'pte' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true
[-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
1357 | if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/next/build/mm/khugepaged.c:1458:6: note: uninitialized use occurs here
1458 | if (pte)
| ^~~
/tmp/next/build/mm/khugepaged.c:1357:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false
1357 | if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1358 | goto out_up_write;
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/next/build/mm/khugepaged.c:1352:6: error: variable 'pte' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true
[-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
1352 | if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/next/build/mm/khugepaged.c:1458:6: note: uninitialized use occurs here
1458 | if (pte)
| ^~~
/tmp/next/build/mm/khugepaged.c:1352:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false
1352 | if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1353 | goto out_up_write;
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/next/build/mm/khugepaged.c:1296:12: note: initialize the variable 'pte' to silence this warning
1296 | pte_t *pte;
| ^
| = NULL
2 errors generated.

Caused by this diff:

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 8ffb47f1e8453..2837f12618583 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long s
const unsigned long end_addr = start_addr + (PAGE_SIZE << order);
LIST_HEAD(compound_pagelist);
pmd_t *pmd, _pmd;
- pte_t *pte = NULL;
+ pte_t *pte;
pgtable_t pgtable;
struct folio *folio;
spinlock_t *pmd_ptl, *pte_ptl;

which git annotate is getting very confused about the source of unless
it's a dropped commit. I have reverted that hunk.

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