This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled platform/x86: wmi: remove unnecessary initializations to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: platform-x86-wmi-remove-unnecessary-initializations.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b973a27c2971f4de89f279e163721ce6156cd979 Author: Barnabás Pőcze <pobrn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Sep 4 17:55:10 2021 +0000 platform/x86: wmi: remove unnecessary initializations [ Upstream commit 43aacf838ef7384d985ef5385ecb0124f8c70007 ] Some pointers are initialized when they are defined, but they are almost immediately reassigned in the following lines. Remove these superfluous assignments. Signed-off-by: Barnabás Pőcze <pobrn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210904175450.156801-6-pobrn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Stable-dep-of: eba9ac7abab9 ("platform/x86: wmi: Fix opening of char device") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c index 404fe3cac4cc5..6f8145520bcee 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ static int get_subobj_info(acpi_handle handle, const char *pathname, static acpi_status wmi_method_enable(struct wmi_block *wblock, int enable) { - struct guid_block *block = NULL; + struct guid_block *block; char method[5]; acpi_status status; acpi_handle handle; @@ -259,8 +259,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wmi_evaluate_method); acpi_status wmidev_evaluate_method(struct wmi_device *wdev, u8 instance, u32 method_id, const struct acpi_buffer *in, struct acpi_buffer *out) { - struct guid_block *block = NULL; - struct wmi_block *wblock = NULL; + struct guid_block *block; + struct wmi_block *wblock; acpi_handle handle; acpi_status status; struct acpi_object_list input; @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wmidev_evaluate_method); static acpi_status __query_block(struct wmi_block *wblock, u8 instance, struct acpi_buffer *out) { - struct guid_block *block = NULL; + struct guid_block *block; acpi_handle handle; acpi_status status, wc_status = AE_ERROR; struct acpi_object_list input; @@ -420,8 +420,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wmidev_block_query); acpi_status wmi_set_block(const char *guid_string, u8 instance, const struct acpi_buffer *in) { - struct guid_block *block = NULL; struct wmi_block *wblock = NULL; + struct guid_block *block; acpi_handle handle; struct acpi_object_list input; union acpi_object params[2]; @@ -821,8 +821,8 @@ static int wmi_dev_match(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *driver) static int wmi_char_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) { const char *driver_name = filp->f_path.dentry->d_iname; - struct wmi_block *wblock = NULL; - struct wmi_block *next = NULL; + struct wmi_block *wblock; + struct wmi_block *next; list_for_each_entry_safe(wblock, next, &wmi_block_list, list) { if (!wblock->dev.dev.driver) @@ -854,8 +854,8 @@ static long wmi_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) struct wmi_ioctl_buffer __user *input = (struct wmi_ioctl_buffer __user *) arg; struct wmi_block *wblock = filp->private_data; - struct wmi_ioctl_buffer *buf = NULL; - struct wmi_driver *wdriver = NULL; + struct wmi_ioctl_buffer *buf; + struct wmi_driver *wdriver; int ret; if (_IOC_TYPE(cmd) != WMI_IOC)