The quilt patch titled Subject: user_namespace: remove unnecessary NULL values from kbuf has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was user_namespace-remove-unnecessary-null-values-from-kbuf.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ 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