From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/damon: remove redundant page validation It will never get a NULL page by pte_page() as discussed in thread [1], thus remove the redundant page validation to fix below Smatch static checker warning. mm/damon/vaddr.c:405 damon_hugetlb_mkold() warn: 'page' can't be NULL. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220106091200.GA14564@kili/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6d32f7d201b8970d53f51b6c5717d472aed2987c.1642386715.git.baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/damon/vaddr.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) --- a/mm/damon/vaddr.c~mm-damon-remove-redundant-page-validation +++ a/mm/damon/vaddr.c @@ -402,9 +402,6 @@ static void damon_hugetlb_mkold(pte_t *p pte_t entry = huge_ptep_get(pte); struct page *page = pte_page(entry); - if (!page) - return; - get_page(page); if (pte_young(entry)) { @@ -564,9 +561,6 @@ static int damon_young_hugetlb_entry(pte goto out; page = pte_page(entry); - if (!page) - goto out; - get_page(page); if (pte_young(entry) || !page_is_idle(page) || _