+ lib-test_hmm-remove-dead-null-checks-after-gfp_nofail-allocations.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

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The patch titled
     Subject: lib/test_hmm: remove dead NULL checks after GFP_NOFAIL allocations
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     lib-test_hmm-remove-dead-null-checks-after-gfp_nofail-allocations.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/lib-test_hmm-remove-dead-null-checks-after-gfp_nofail-allocations.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Gou Hao <gouhao@uniontech.com>
Subject: lib/test_hmm: remove dead NULL checks after GFP_NOFAIL allocations
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:28:50 +0800

kvcalloc with the __GFP_NOFAIL flag will never return NULL, so the
subsequent NULL checks are unreachable dead code.  Remove them.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260724022851.466017-6-gouhao@uniontech.com
Signed-off-by: Gou Hao <gouhao@uniontech.com>
Cc: Bharat Potnuri <bharat@chelsio.com>
Cc: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: jiazhenyuan <jiazhenyuan@uniontech.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: Wentao Guan <guanwentao@uniontech.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 lib/test_hmm.c |    6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

--- a/lib/test_hmm.c~lib-test_hmm-remove-dead-null-checks-after-gfp_nofail-allocations
+++ a/lib/test_hmm.c
@@ -1312,16 +1312,10 @@ static int dmirror_migrate_to_device(str
 	if (!mmget_not_zero(mm))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	ret = -ENOMEM;
 	src_pfns = kvcalloc(PTRS_PER_PTE, sizeof(*src_pfns),
 			  GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
-	if (!src_pfns)
-		goto free_mem;
-
 	dst_pfns = kvcalloc(PTRS_PER_PTE, sizeof(*dst_pfns),
 			  GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
-	if (!dst_pfns)
-		goto free_mem;
 
 	ret = 0;
 	mmap_read_lock(mm);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from gouhao@uniontech.com are

powerpc-xive-remove-dead-null-check-after-gfp_nofail-allocation.patch
powerpc-xive-add-error-return-value-to-xive_smp_probe.patch
powerpc-xive-fix-use-after-free-of-xive_ipis.patch
drm-remove-dead-warn_on-null-check-after-gfp_nofail-allocation.patch
lib-test_hmm-remove-dead-null-checks-after-gfp_nofail-allocations.patch
rdma-cxgb4-remove-dead-null-checks-after-gfp_nofail-allocations.patch