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mm/ksm: fix -Wsometimes-uninitialized from clang-21 in advisor_mode_show()

After a recent change in clang to expose uninitialized warnings from const
variables [1], there is a false positive warning from the if statement in
advisor_mode_show().

mm/ksm.c:3687:11: error: variable 'output' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
3687 | else if (ksm_advisor == KSM_ADVISOR_SCAN_TIME)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mm/ksm.c:3690:33: note: uninitialized use occurs here
3690 | return sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", output);
| ^~~~~~

Rewrite the if statement to implicitly make KSM_ADVISOR_NONE the else
branch so that it is obvious to the compiler that ksm_advisor can only be
KSM_ADVISOR_NONE or KSM_ADVISOR_SCAN_TIME due to the assignments in
advisor_mode_store().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250715-ksm-fix-clang-21-uninit-warning-v1-1-f443feb4bfc4@kernel.org
Fixes: 66790e9a735b ("mm/ksm: add sysfs knobs for advisor")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2100
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/2464313eef01c5b1edf0eccf57a32cdee01472c7 [1]
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Nathan Chancellor and committed by
Andrew Morton
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mm/ksm.c
··· 3669 3669 { 3670 3670 const char *output; 3671 3671 3672 - if (ksm_advisor == KSM_ADVISOR_NONE) 3673 - output = "[none] scan-time"; 3674 - else if (ksm_advisor == KSM_ADVISOR_SCAN_TIME) 3672 + if (ksm_advisor == KSM_ADVISOR_SCAN_TIME) 3675 3673 output = "none [scan-time]"; 3674 + else 3675 + output = "[none] scan-time"; 3676 3676 3677 3677 return sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", output); 3678 3678 }