The patch titled
Subject: mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-process_vm_access-remove-redundant-initialization-of-iov_r.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-process_vm_access-remove-redundant-initialization-of-iov_r.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-process_vm_access-remove-redundant-initialization-of-iov_r.patch
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From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
The pointer iov_r is being initialized with a value that is never read and
it is being updated later with a new value. The initialization is
redundant and can be removed.
Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201102120614.694917-1-colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/process_vm_access.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/process_vm_access.c~mm-process_vm_access-remove-redundant-initialization-of-iov_r
+++ a/mm/process_vm_access.c
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static ssize_t process_vm_rw(pid_t pid,
struct iovec iovstack_l[UIO_FASTIOV];
struct iovec iovstack_r[UIO_FASTIOV];
struct iovec *iov_l = iovstack_l;
- struct iovec *iov_r = iovstack_r;
+ struct iovec *iov_r;
struct iov_iter iter;
ssize_t rc;
int dir = vm_write ? WRITE : READ;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-process_vm_access-remove-redundant-initialization-of-iov_r.patch
