From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,ruanjinjie@huawei.com,arnd@arndb.de,julianbraha@gmail.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: + arch-kconfig-fix-dead-conditions-by-removing-dead-options.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:35:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260901023537.3C2161F000E9@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The patch titled
Subject: arch/Kconfig: fix dead conditions by removing dead options
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
arch-kconfig-fix-dead-conditions-by-removing-dead-options.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/arch-kconfig-fix-dead-conditions-by-removing-dead-options.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: Julian Braha <julianbraha@gmail.com>
Subject: arch/Kconfig: fix dead conditions by removing dead options
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:16 +0100
These two 'int' options:
ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
are used directly as conditions for defaults. 'int' options should not be
used as conditions, because they will always evaluate to false.
Let's remove these options, because they are not used anywhere else.
This dead code was found by kconfirm, a static analysis tool for Kconfig.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260830230016.2730093-1-julianbraha@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Julian Braha <julianbraha@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
arch/Kconfig | 8 --------
1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/Kconfig~arch-kconfig-fix-dead-conditions-by-removing-dead-options
+++ a/arch/Kconfig
@@ -1238,13 +1238,9 @@ config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
int
-config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
- int
-
config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
- default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
help
@@ -1272,13 +1268,9 @@ config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
int
-config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
- int
-
config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
- default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
help
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from julianbraha@gmail.com are
lib-cleanup-fake-tristates-in-kconfig.patch
arch-kconfig-fix-dead-conditions-by-removing-dead-options.patch
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