The value assigned to prot is immediately overwritten on the next line with PAGE_KERNEL. The right hand side of the assignment has no side-effects. Fixes: b073d7f8aee4 ("mm: kmsan: maintain KMSAN metadata for page operations") Suggested-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/kmsan/shadow.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/kmsan/shadow.c b/mm/kmsan/shadow.c index b9d05aff313e..2d57408c78ae 100644 --- a/mm/kmsan/shadow.c +++ b/mm/kmsan/shadow.c @@ -243,7 +243,6 @@ int kmsan_vmap_pages_range_noflush(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, s_pages[i] = shadow_page_for(pages[i]); o_pages[i] = origin_page_for(pages[i]); } - prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) | _PAGE_NX); prot = PAGE_KERNEL; origin_start = vmalloc_meta((void *)start, KMSAN_META_ORIGIN); -- 2.45.1