The patch titled Subject: kernel/signal: remove unnecessary NULL values from ucounts has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is kernel-signal-remove-unnecessary-null-values-from-ucounts.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/kernel-signal-remove-unnecessary-null-values-from-ucounts.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: Li kunyu <kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kernel/signal: remove unnecessary NULL values from ucounts Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:24:10 +0800 ucounts is assigned first, so it does not need to initialize the assignment. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926022410.4280-1-kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Li kunyu <kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/signal.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/signal.c~kernel-signal-remove-unnecessary-null-values-from-ucounts +++ a/kernel/signal.c @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ __sigqueue_alloc(int sig, struct task_st int override_rlimit, const unsigned int sigqueue_flags) { struct sigqueue *q = NULL; - struct ucounts *ucounts = NULL; + struct ucounts *ucounts; long sigpending; /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx are kernel-signal-remove-unnecessary-null-values-from-ucounts.patch