linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] secretmem: drop unneeded initialization in secretmem_file

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Date:   Tue, 5 Jul 2022 08:05:31 +0200
From:   Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, llvm@...ts.linux.dev,
        kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] secretmem: drop unneeded initialization in secretmem_file_create()

On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 6:30 PM Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Lukas,
>
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 11:26:05AM +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> > Drop the unneeded initialization of the local variable file in function
> > secretmem_file_create().
> >
> > No functional change and no change in the resulting object code.
> >
> > This unneeded initialization was already introduced with the introduction
> > of secretmem in commit 1507f51255c9 ("mm: introduce memfd_secret system
> > call to create "secret" memory areas"). This minor code-stylistic issue
> > was discovered as a dead store with clang-analyzer.
>
> You are right and in the current code the initialization is unneeded, but
> there's a pending patch that relies of this initialization:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/Yr1jKwz2+SGxjcuW@kernel.org/
>
> Let's wait and see how that fix develops.
>

Agree. I will continue tracking the evolution of this function and
resend my patch if this patch above does not land in the next six
months. For now, this clean-up patch here can be ignored.

Lukas