The patch titled Subject: fs/befs/datastream.c:befs_read_lsymlink(): remove unneeded initialization to NULL has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-befs-datastreamc-befs_read_lsymlink-remove-unneeded-initialization-to-null.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fs-befs-datastreamc-befs_read_lsymlink-remove-unneeded-initialization-to-null.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-befs-datastreamc-befs_read_lsymlink-remove-unneeded-initialization-to-null.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Salah Triki <salah.triki@xxxxxxx> Subject: fs/befs/datastream.c:befs_read_lsymlink(): remove unneeded initialization to NULL bh is reinitialized by befs_read_datastream() so no need to init it with NULL in the beginning of befs_read_lsymlink(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e22f279bceb8d026af048952e02ba98925b21c92.1462649034.git.salah.triki@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Salah Triki <salah.triki@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/befs/datastream.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/befs/datastream.c~fs-befs-datastreamc-befs_read_lsymlink-remove-unneeded-initialization-to-null fs/befs/datastream.c --- a/fs/befs/datastream.c~fs-befs-datastreamc-befs_read_lsymlink-remove-unneeded-initialization-to-null +++ a/fs/befs/datastream.c @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ befs_read_lsymlink(struct super_block * { befs_off_t bytes_read = 0; /* bytes readed */ u16 plen; - struct buffer_head *bh = NULL; + struct buffer_head *bh; befs_debug(sb, "---> %s length: %llu", __func__, len); while (bytes_read < len) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from salah.triki@xxxxxxx are fs-befs-datastreamc-befs_read_datastream-remove-unneeded-initialization-to-null.patch fs-befs-datastreamc-befs_read_lsymlink-remove-unneeded-initialization-to-null.patch fs-befs-datastreamc-befs_find_brun_dblindirect-remove-unneeded-initializations-to-null.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html