linux-kernel - [PATCH] page_alloc: remove inactive initialization

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Message-Id: <20220803064118.3664-1-kunyu@nfschina.com>
Date:   Wed,  3 Aug 2022 14:41:18 +0800
From:   Li kunyu <kunyu@...china.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Li kunyu <kunyu@...china.com>
Subject: [PATCH] page_alloc: remove inactive initialization

The allocation address of the table pointer variable is first performed
in the function, no initialization assignment is required, and no
invalid pointer will appear.

Signed-off-by: Li kunyu <kunyu@...china.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index b0bcab50f0a3..38d559e8aee6 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -8885,7 +8885,7 @@ void *__init alloc_large_system_hash(const char *tablename,
 {
 	unsigned long long max = high_limit;
 	unsigned long log2qty, size;
-	void *table = NULL;
+	void *table;
 	gfp_t gfp_flags;
 	bool virt;
 	bool huge;
-- 
2.18.2