vma is assigned first, so it does not need to initialize the assignment. Signed-off-by: Li kunyu <kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/exec.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index b01d2d40ace03..cae37330e7442 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ static void flush_arg_page(struct linux_binprm *bprm, unsigned long pos, static int __bprm_mm_init(struct linux_binprm *bprm) { int err; - struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL; + struct vm_area_struct *vma; struct mm_struct *mm = bprm->mm; bprm->vma = vma = vm_area_alloc(mm); -- 2.18.2