The patch titled Subject: mm/huge_memory.c: remove unnecessary local variable ret2 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-huge_memoryc-remove-unnecessary-local-variable-ret2.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-huge_memoryc-remove-unnecessary-local-variable-ret2.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-huge_memoryc-remove-unnecessary-local-variable-ret2.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: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/huge_memory.c: remove unnecessary local variable ret2 There is no need to use a new local variable ret2 to get the return value of handle_userfault(). Use ret directly to make code more succinct. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210210072409.60587-1-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-huge_memoryc-remove-unnecessary-local-variable-ret2 +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -624,14 +624,12 @@ static vm_fault_t __do_huge_pmd_anonymou /* Deliver the page fault to userland */ if (userfaultfd_missing(vma)) { - vm_fault_t ret2; - spin_unlock(vmf->ptl); put_page(page); pte_free(vma->vm_mm, pgtable); - ret2 = handle_userfault(vmf, VM_UFFD_MISSING); - VM_BUG_ON(ret2 & VM_FAULT_FALLBACK); - return ret2; + ret = handle_userfault(vmf, VM_UFFD_MISSING); + VM_BUG_ON(ret & VM_FAULT_FALLBACK); + return ret; } entry = mk_huge_pmd(page, vma->vm_page_prot); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx are hugetlb_cgroup-fix-imbalanced-css_get-and-css_put-pair-for-shared-mappings.patch mm-hugetlb-remove-redundant-reservation-check-condition-in-alloc_huge_page.patch mm-hugetlb-use-some-helper-functions-to-cleanup-code.patch mm-hugetlb-optimize-the-surplus-state-transfer-code-in-move_hugetlb_state.patch hugetlb_cgroup-remove-unnecessary-vm_bug_on_page-in-hugetlb_cgroup_migrate.patch mm-hugetlb-simplify-the-code-when-alloc_huge_page-failed-in-hugetlb_no_page.patch mm-hugetlb-avoid-calculating-fault_mutex_hash-in-truncate_op-case.patch khugepaged-remove-unneeded-return-value-of-khugepaged_collapse_pte_mapped_thps.patch khugepaged-reuse-the-smp_wmb-inside-__setpageuptodate.patch khugepaged-use-helper-khugepaged_test_exit-in-__khugepaged_enter.patch khugepaged-fix-wrong-result-value-for-trace_mm_collapse_huge_page_isolate.patch mm-huge_memoryc-remove-unnecessary-local-variable-ret2.patch