The quilt patch titled Subject: mm/secretmem: remove redundant initiialization of pointer file has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-secretmem-remove-redundant-initiialization-of-pointer-file.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: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: 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> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> 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