The allocation address of the table pointer variable is first performed in the function, no initialization assignment is required, and no invalid pointer will appear. Signed-off-by: Li kunyu <kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index b0bcab50f0a3..38d559e8aee6 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -8885,7 +8885,7 @@ void *__init alloc_large_system_hash(const char *tablename, { unsigned long long max = high_limit; unsigned long log2qty, size; - void *table = NULL; + void *table; gfp_t gfp_flags; bool virt; bool huge; -- 2.18.2