The patch titled
Subject: [next] mm/secretmem: remove redundant initiialization of pointer file
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-secretmem-remove-redundant-initiialization-of-pointer-file.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-secretmem-remove-redundant-initiialization-of-pointer-file.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: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [next] mm/secretmem: remove redundant initiialization of pointer file
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:43:32 +0000
The pointer file is being initialized with a value that is never read, it
is being re-assigned later on. Clean up code by removing the redundant
initialization.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230116164332.79500-1-colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/mm/secretmem.c~mm-secretmem-remove-redundant-initiialization-of-pointer-file
+++ a/mm/secretmem.c
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static struct vfsmount *secretmem_mnt;
static struct file *secretmem_file_create(unsigned long flags)
{
- struct file *file = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+ struct file *file;
struct inode *inode;
const char *anon_name = "[secretmem]";
const struct qstr qname = QSTR_INIT(anon_name, strlen(anon_name));
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx are
mm-secretmem-remove-redundant-initiialization-of-pointer-file.patch
