The patch titled
Subject: user_namespace: Remove unnecessary NULL values from kbuf
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
user_namespace-remove-unnecessary-null-values-from-kbuf.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/user_namespace-remove-unnecessary-null-values-from-kbuf.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Li zeming <zeming@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: user_namespace: Remove unnecessary NULL values from kbuf
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 14:25:19 +0800
kbuf is assigned first, so it does not need to initialize the assignment.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240115062519.31298-1-zeming@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Li zeming <zeming@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/user_namespace.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c~user_namespace-remove-unnecessary-null-values-from-kbuf
+++ a/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *fi
struct uid_gid_map new_map;
unsigned idx;
struct uid_gid_extent extent;
- char *kbuf = NULL, *pos, *next_line;
+ char *kbuf, *pos, *next_line;
ssize_t ret;
/* Only allow < page size writes at the beginning of the file */
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from zeming@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
user_namespace-remove-unnecessary-null-values-from-kbuf.patch
