The patch titled Subject: lib/scatterlist.c: avoid a double memset has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was lib-scatterlist-avoid-a-double-memset.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: lib/scatterlist.c: avoid a double memset 'sgl' is zeroed a few lines below in 'sg_init_table()'. There is no need to clear it twice. Remove the redundant initialization. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200920071544.368841-1-christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/scatterlist.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/lib/scatterlist.c~lib-scatterlist-avoid-a-double-memset +++ a/lib/scatterlist.c @@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ struct scatterlist *sgl_alloc_order(unsi nalloc++; } sgl = kmalloc_array(nalloc, sizeof(struct scatterlist), - (gfp & ~GFP_DMA) | __GFP_ZERO); + gfp & ~GFP_DMA); if (!sgl) return NULL; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx are