From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> As noted by Akinobu Mita in patch b1fceac2b9e04d278316b2faddf276015fc06e3b, alloc_bootmem and related functions never return NULL and always return a zeroed region of memory. Thus a NULL test or memset after calls to these functions is unnecessary. mm/sparse.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) This was fixed using the following semantic patch. (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ expression E; statement S; @@ E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...) ... when != E ( - BUG_ON (E == NULL); | - if (E == NULL) S ) @@ expression E,E1; @@ E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...) ... when != E - memset(E,0,E1); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- diff -u -p a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c --- a/mm/sparse.c +++ b/mm/sparse.c @@ -324,8 +324,6 @@ void __init sparse_init(void) */ size = sizeof(unsigned long *) * NR_MEM_SECTIONS; usemap_map = alloc_bootmem(size); - if (!usemap_map) - panic("can not allocate usemap_map\n"); for (pnum = 0; pnum < NR_MEM_SECTIONS; pnum++) { if (!present_section_nr(pnum)) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html