Now there is nothing which jumps to the cleanup blocks before the name variable is set. There is no need to set it initially to NULL anymore. Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/swapfile.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c index c97dc4b..8893c10 100644 --- a/mm/swapfile.c +++ b/mm/swapfile.c @@ -1892,7 +1892,7 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_swap_info(void) SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags) { struct swap_info_struct *p; - char *name = NULL; + char *name; struct block_device *bdev = NULL; struct file *swap_file = NULL; struct address_space *mapping; -- 1.7.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>