The quilt patch titled Subject: maple_tree: remove pointer to pointer use in mas_alloc_nodes() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was maple_tree-remove-pointer-to-pointer-use-in-mas_alloc_nodes.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: maple_tree: remove pointer to pointer use in mas_alloc_nodes() Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:13:29 +0000 There is a more direct and cleaner way of implementing the same functional code. Remove the confusing and unnecessary use of pointers here. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221026151241.4031117-1-Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/maple_tree.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/lib/maple_tree.c~maple_tree-remove-pointer-to-pointer-use-in-mas_alloc_nodes +++ a/lib/maple_tree.c @@ -1209,7 +1209,6 @@ done: static inline void mas_alloc_nodes(struct ma_state *mas, gfp_t gfp) { struct maple_alloc *node; - struct maple_alloc **nodep = &mas->alloc; unsigned long allocated = mas_allocated(mas); unsigned long success = allocated; unsigned int requested = mas_alloc_req(mas); @@ -1263,8 +1262,7 @@ static inline void mas_alloc_nodes(struc node->node_count--; success += count; - nodep = &node->slot[0]; - node = *nodep; + node = node->slot[0]; requested -= count; } mas->alloc->total = success; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from liam.howlett@xxxxxxxxxx are maple_tree-fix-mas_find_rev-comment.patch maple_tree-update-copyright-dates-for-test-code.patch maple_tree-mte_set_full-and-mte_clear_full-clang-analyzer-clean-up.patch