linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unused variable

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Date:   Tue, 12 Mar 2019 07:58:51 -0600
From:   Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@...cle.com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unused variable

On 3/12/19 7:28 AM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> 
> The mm variable is set but unused. Remove it.

It is used. Look further down for calls to set_pte_at().

--
Khalid

> 
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> ---
>  mm/mprotect.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
> index 028c724dcb1a..130dac3ad04f 100644
> --- a/mm/mprotect.c
> +++ b/mm/mprotect.c
> @@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ static unsigned long change_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
>  		unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
>  		int dirty_accountable, int prot_numa)
>  {
> -	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
>  	pte_t *pte, oldpte;
>  	spinlock_t *ptl;
>  	unsigned long pages = 0;
>