linux-kernel - [PATCH 11/11] x86/smp: Remove unnecessary initialization of thread

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <6cf6314dce3051371a913ee19d1b88e29c68c560.1468527351.git.luto@kernel.org>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:22:59 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:	x86@...nel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 11/11] x86/smp: Remove unnecessary initialization of thread_info::cpu

It's statically initialized to zero -- no need to dynamically
initialize it to zero as well.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index fafe8b923cac..0e91dbeca2fd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1285,7 +1285,6 @@ void __init native_smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
 	cpumask_copy(cpu_callin_mask, cpumask_of(0));
 	mb();
 
-	current_thread_info()->cpu = 0;  /* needed? */
 	for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
 		zalloc_cpumask_var(&per_cpu(cpu_sibling_map, i), GFP_KERNEL);
 		zalloc_cpumask_var(&per_cpu(cpu_core_map, i), GFP_KERNEL);
-- 
2.7.4