The quilt patch titled Subject: page_alloc: remove inactive initialization has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was page_alloc-remove-inactive-initialization.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Li kunyu <kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: page_alloc: remove inactive initialization Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 14:41:18 +0800 The allocation address of the table pointer variable is first performed in the function, no initialization assignment is required, and no invalid pointer will appear. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220803064118.3664-1-kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Li kunyu <kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~page_alloc-remove-inactive-initialization +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -8974,7 +8974,7 @@ void *__init alloc_large_system_hash(con { unsigned long long max = high_limit; unsigned long log2qty, size; - void *table = NULL; + void *table; gfp_t gfp_flags; bool virt; bool huge; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx are