The patch titled
Subject: mm/mprotect: remove the redundant initialization for error
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-mprotect-remove-the-redundant-initialization-for-error.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-mprotect-remove-the-redundant-initialization-for-error.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/mprotect: remove the redundant initialization for error
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2022 19:41:12 +0800
The variable error will be assigned correctly before it is used, the
initialization is redundant, so remove it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220704114112.163112-1-xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mprotect.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/mprotect.c~mm-mprotect-remove-the-redundant-initialization-for-error
+++ a/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ static int do_mprotect_pkey(unsigned lon
{
unsigned long nstart, end, tmp, reqprot;
struct vm_area_struct *vma, *prev;
- int error = -EINVAL;
+ int error;
const int grows = prot & (PROT_GROWSDOWN|PROT_GROWSUP);
const bool rier = (current->personality & READ_IMPLIES_EXEC) &&
(prot & PROT_READ);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-mprotect-remove-the-redundant-initialization-for-error.patch
