+ kexec-remove-redundant-assignments.patch added to -mm tree

+ kexec-remove-redundant-assignments.patch added to -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: kexec: remove redundant assignments
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     kexec-remove-redundant-assignments.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kexec-remove-redundant-assignments.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kexec-remove-redundant-assignments.patch

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From: Michal Orzel <michalorzel.eng@gmail.com>
Subject: kexec: remove redundant assignments

Get rid of redund\x10ant assignments which end up in values not being
read either because they are overwritten or the function ends.

Reported by clang-tidy [deadcode.DeadStores]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220326180948.192154-1-michalorzel.eng@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michalorzel.eng@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Michal Orzel <michalorzel.eng@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/kexec_core.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c~kexec-remove-redundant-assignments
+++ a/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -768,7 +768,6 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_page(st
 				kimage_free_pages(old_page);
 				continue;
 			}
-			addr = old_addr;
 			page = old_page;
 			break;
 		}
@@ -788,7 +787,6 @@ static int kimage_load_normal_segment(st
 	unsigned char __user *buf = NULL;
 	unsigned char *kbuf = NULL;
 
-	result = 0;
 	if (image->file_mode)
 		kbuf = segment->kbuf;
 	else
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from michalorzel.eng@gmail.com are

kexec-remove-redundant-assignments.patch