The patch titled Subject: fs//binfmt_elf.c: move variables initialization closer to their usage has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was elf-move-variables-initialization-closer-to-their-usage.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs//binfmt_elf.c: move variables initialization closer to their usage Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190416202002.GB24304@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c~elf-move-variables-initialization-closer-to-their-usage +++ a/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -732,14 +732,6 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_ goto out; elf_ppnt = elf_phdata; - elf_bss = 0; - elf_brk = 0; - - start_code = ~0UL; - end_code = 0; - start_data = 0; - end_data = 0; - for (i = 0; i < loc->elf_ex.e_phnum; i++, elf_ppnt++) { char *elf_interpreter; loff_t pos; @@ -887,6 +879,14 @@ out_free_interp: if (retval < 0) goto out_free_dentry; + elf_bss = 0; + elf_brk = 0; + + start_code = ~0UL; + end_code = 0; + start_data = 0; + end_data = 0; + /* Now we do a little grungy work by mmapping the ELF image into the correct location in memory. */ for(i = 0, elf_ppnt = elf_phdata; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are ramfs-support-o_tmpfile.patch