[merged mm-nonmm-stable] lib-glob-initialize-back_str-to-silence-uninitialized-variable-warning.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-nonmm-stable] lib-glob-initialize-back_str-to-silence-uninitialized-variable-warning.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: lib/glob: initialize back_str to silence uninitialized variable warning
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     lib-glob-initialize-back_str-to-silence-uninitialized-variable-warning.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>
Subject: lib/glob: initialize back_str to silence uninitialized variable warning
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:52:49 +0000

back_str is only used when back_pat is non-NULL, and both are always set
together, so it is safe in practice.  Initialize back_str to NULL to make
this safety invariant explicit and silence compiler/static analysis
warnings.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260312215249.50165-1-objecting@objecting.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 lib/glob.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/lib/glob.c~lib-glob-initialize-back_str-to-silence-uninitialized-variable-warning
+++ a/lib/glob.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ bool __pure glob_match(char const *pat,
 	 * (no exception for /), it can be easily proved that there's
 	 * never a need to backtrack multiple levels.
 	 */
-	char const *back_pat = NULL, *back_str;
+	char const *back_pat = NULL, *back_str = NULL;
 
 	/*
 	 * Loop over each token (character or class) in pat, matching
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from objecting@objecting.org are

mm-damon-core-document-damos_commit_dests-failure-semantics.patch
lib-maple_tree-fix-swapped-arguments-in-mas_safe_pivot-call.patch
lib-idr-fix-ida_find_first_range-missing-ids-across-chunk-boundaries.patch