The patch titled Subject: mm/hugetlb.c: clean code by removing unnecessary initialization has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-hugetlbc-clean-code-by-removing-unnecessary-initialization.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-hugetlbc-clean-code-by-removing-unnecessary-initialization.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-hugetlbc-clean-code-by-removing-unnecessary-initialization.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: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/hugetlb.c: clean code by removing unnecessary initialization Previously variable 'check_addr' was initialized, but was not read later before reassigning. So the initialization can be removed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200303212354.25226-1-mateusznosek0@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlbc-clean-code-by-removing-unnecessary-initialization +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -5020,7 +5020,7 @@ static bool vma_shareable(struct vm_area void adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end) { - unsigned long check_addr = *start; + unsigned long check_addr; if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE)) return; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mateusznosek0@xxxxxxxxx are mm-vmscanc-clean-code-by-removing-unnecessary-assignment.patch mm-hugetlbc-clean-code-by-removing-unnecessary-initialization.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