The patch titled proc: cleanup: remove unused assignments has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is proc-cleanup-remove-unused-assignments.patch 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/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: proc: cleanup: remove unused assignments From: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> I removed 3 unused assignments. The first two get reset on the first statement of their functions. For "err" in root.c we don't return an error and we don't use the variable again. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/base.c | 4 ++-- fs/proc/root.c | 1 - 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/proc/base.c~proc-cleanup-remove-unused-assignments fs/proc/base.c --- a/fs/proc/base.c~proc-cleanup-remove-unused-assignments +++ a/fs/proc/base.c @@ -2519,7 +2519,7 @@ static struct dentry *proc_base_instanti const struct pid_entry *p = ptr; struct inode *inode; struct proc_inode *ei; - struct dentry *error = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + struct dentry *error; /* Allocate the inode */ error = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); @@ -2869,7 +2869,7 @@ out: struct dentry *proc_pid_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry * dentry, struct nameidata *nd) { - struct dentry *result = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); + struct dentry *result; struct task_struct *task; unsigned tgid; struct pid_namespace *ns; diff -puN fs/proc/root.c~proc-cleanup-remove-unused-assignments fs/proc/root.c --- a/fs/proc/root.c~proc-cleanup-remove-unused-assignments +++ a/fs/proc/root.c @@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ void __init proc_root_init(void) if (err) return; proc_mnt = kern_mount_data(&proc_fs_type, &init_pid_ns); - err = PTR_ERR(proc_mnt); if (IS_ERR(proc_mnt)) { unregister_filesystem(&proc_fs_type); return; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from error27@xxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch i915-fix-small-leak-on-error-path.patch sched-cleanup-remove-unused-variable-in-try_to_wake_up.patch scsi-remove-superfluous-null-pointer-check-from-scsi_kill_request.patch goku_udc-potential-null-dereference.patch dynamic_debug-small-cleanup-in-ddebug_proc_write.patch proc-cleanup-remove-unused-assignments.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html