The patch titled Subject: kexec: remove redundant assignments has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kexec-remove-redundant-assignments.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kexec-remove-redundant-assignments.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kexec-remove-redundant-assignments.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: Michal Orzel <michalorzel.eng@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: kexec: remove redundant assignments Get rid of redundant assignments which end up in values not being read either because they are overwritten or the function ends. Reported by clang-tidy [deadcode.DeadStores] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220326180948.192154-1-michalorzel.eng@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michalorzel.eng@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Orzel <michalorzel.eng@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/kexec_core.c~kexec-remove-redundant-assignments +++ a/kernel/kexec_core.c @@ -768,7 +768,6 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_page(st kimage_free_pages(old_page); continue; } - addr = old_addr; page = old_page; break; } @@ -788,7 +787,6 @@ static int kimage_load_normal_segment(st unsigned char __user *buf = NULL; unsigned char *kbuf = NULL; - result = 0; if (image->file_mode) kbuf = segment->kbuf; else _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from michalorzel.eng@xxxxxxxxx are kexec-remove-redundant-assignments.patch