The patch titled Subject: mm/shmem.c: Clean code by removing unnecessary assignment has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-shmemc-clean-code-by-removing-unnecessary-assignment.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-shmemc-clean-code-by-removing-unnecessary-assignment.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-shmemc-clean-code-by-removing-unnecessary-assignment.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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: mateusznosek0@xxxxxxxxx Subject: mm/shmem.c: Clean code by removing unnecessary assignment Previously 0 was assigned to variable 'error' but the variable was never read before reassignemnt later. So the assignment can be removed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200301152832.24595-1-mateusznosek0@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/mm/shmem.c~mm-shmemc-clean-code-by-removing-unnecessary-assignment +++ a/mm/shmem.c @@ -3116,12 +3116,9 @@ static int shmem_symlink(struct inode *d error = security_inode_init_security(inode, dir, &dentry->d_name, shmem_initxattrs, NULL); - if (error) { - if (error != -EOPNOTSUPP) { - iput(inode); - return error; - } - error = 0; + if (error && error != -EOPNOTSUPP) { + iput(inode); + return error; } inode->i_size = len-1; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mateusznosek0@xxxxxxxxx are mm-vmscanc-clean-code-by-removing-unnecessary-assignment.patch mm-shmemc-clean-code-by-removing-unnecessary-assignment.patch mm-mm_initc-clean-code-use-build_bug_on-when-comparing-compile-time-constant.patch