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cgroup: cgroup_attach_task() could return -errno after success
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61d1d21 "cgroup: remove extra calls to find_existing_css_set" made
cgroup_task_migrate() return void.  An unfortunate side effect was
that cgroup_attach_task() was depending on that function's return
value to clear its @retval on the success path.  On cgroup mounts
without any subsystem with ->can_attach() callback,
cgroup_attach_task() ended up returning @retval without initializing
it on success.

For some reason, gcc failed to warn about it and it didn't cause
cgroup_attach_task() to return non-zero value in many cases, probably
due to difference in register allocation.  When the problem
materializes, systemd fails to populate /systemd cgroup mount and
fails to boot.

Fix it by initializing @retval to zero on declaration.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1203282354440.25526@pobox.suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
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Tejun Heo committed Mar 30, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -1883,7 +1883,7 @@ static void cgroup_task_migrate(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup *oldcgrp,
*/
int cgroup_attach_task(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *tsk)
{
int retval;
int retval = 0;
struct cgroup_subsys *ss, *failed_ss = NULL;
struct cgroup *oldcgrp;
struct cgroupfs_root *root = cgrp->root;
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