The stop variable is a char*, and the code was assigning a char value to it. This was generating a warning when compiling with clang. However, as both David and Peter pointed out, stop is not even used after the problematic assignment to a char type. So just delete that line entirely. Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/mm/mlock2-tests.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mlock2-tests.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mlock2-tests.c index 11b2301f3aa3..80cddc0de206 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mlock2-tests.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mlock2-tests.c @@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ static int get_vm_area(unsigned long addr, struct vm_boundaries *area) printf("cannot parse /proc/self/maps\n"); goto out; } - stop = '\0'; sscanf(line, "%lx", &start); sscanf(end_addr, "%lx", &end); -- 2.40.1