The patch titled Subject: hfsplus: remove unnecessary variable initialization has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is hfsplus-remove-unnecessary-variable-initialization.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/hfsplus-remove-unnecessary-variable-initialization.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: XU pengfei <xupengfei@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: hfsplus: remove unnecessary variable initialization Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 11:21:20 +0800 Variables are assigned first and then used. Initialization is not required. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221221032119.10037-1-xupengfei@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: XU pengfei <xupengfei@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/hfsplus/xattr.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c~hfsplus-remove-unnecessary-variable-initialization +++ a/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ end_attr_file_creation: int __hfsplus_setxattr(struct inode *inode, const char *name, const void *value, size_t size, int flags) { - int err = 0; + int err; struct hfs_find_data cat_fd; hfsplus_cat_entry entry; u16 cat_entry_flags, cat_entry_type; @@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ ssize_t __hfsplus_getxattr(struct inode __be32 xattr_record_type; u32 record_type; u16 record_length = 0; - ssize_t res = 0; + ssize_t res; if ((!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) || @@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ static inline int can_list(const char *x static ssize_t hfsplus_listxattr_finder_info(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, size_t size) { - ssize_t res = 0; + ssize_t res; struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry); struct hfs_find_data fd; u16 entry_type; @@ -674,10 +674,10 @@ end_listxattr_finder_info: ssize_t hfsplus_listxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, size_t size) { ssize_t err; - ssize_t res = 0; + ssize_t res; struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry); struct hfs_find_data fd; - u16 key_len = 0; + u16 key_len; struct hfsplus_attr_key attr_key; char *strbuf; int xattr_name_len; @@ -766,12 +766,12 @@ out: static int hfsplus_removexattr(struct inode *inode, const char *name) { - int err = 0; + int err; struct hfs_find_data cat_fd; u16 flags; u16 cat_entry_type; - int is_xattr_acl_deleted = 0; - int is_all_xattrs_deleted = 0; + int is_xattr_acl_deleted; + int is_all_xattrs_deleted; if (!HFSPLUS_SB(inode->i_sb)->attr_tree) return -EOPNOTSUPP; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from xupengfei@xxxxxxxxxxxx are hfsplus-remove-unnecessary-variable-initialization.patch