Patch "MIPS: elf2ecoff: Fix warning due to dead code." has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    MIPS: elf2ecoff: Fix warning due to dead code.

to the 3.18-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:
     mips-elf2ecoff-fix-warning-due-to-dead-code.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 2d76e9633b572ae5a64150b638eed77f4afc12db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 13:04:03 +0100
Subject: MIPS: elf2ecoff: Fix warning due to dead code.
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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

commit 2d76e9633b572ae5a64150b638eed77f4afc12db upstream.

  HOSTCC  arch/mips/boot/elf2ecoff
arch/mips/boot/elf2ecoff.c: In function ‘main’:
arch/mips/boot/elf2ecoff.c:271:8: warning: variable ‘shstrtab’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  char *shstrtab;

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/mips/boot/elf2ecoff.c |    4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/mips/boot/elf2ecoff.c
+++ b/arch/mips/boot/elf2ecoff.c
@@ -268,7 +268,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	Elf32_Ehdr ex;
 	Elf32_Phdr *ph;
 	Elf32_Shdr *sh;
-	char *shstrtab;
 	int i, pad;
 	struct sect text, data, bss;
 	struct filehdr efh;
@@ -336,9 +335,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 				     "sh");
 	if (must_convert_endian)
 		convert_elf_shdrs(sh, ex.e_shnum);
-	/* Read in the section string table. */
-	shstrtab = saveRead(infile, sh[ex.e_shstrndx].sh_offset,
-			    sh[ex.e_shstrndx].sh_size, "shstrtab");
 
 	/* Figure out if we can cram the program header into an ECOFF
 	   header...  Basically, we can't handle anything but loadable


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ralf@linux-mips.org are

queue-3.18/mips-kgdb-use-kernel-context-for-sleeping-threads.patch
queue-3.18/mips-elf2ecoff-ignore-pt_mips_abiflags-program-headers.patch
queue-3.18/mips-fix-crash-registers-on-non-crashing-cpus.patch
queue-3.18/mips-elf2ecoff-fix-warning-due-to-dead-code.patch