linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] exec: Remove unnecessary ‘NULL’ values from vma

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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:04:44 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Li zeming <zeming@...china.com>
Cc: viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, brauner@...nel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exec: Remove unnecessary ‘NULL’ values from vma

On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 01:18:30PM +0800, Li zeming wrote:
> vma is assigned first, so it does not need to initialize the
> assignment.

I don't really like removing explicit initializations. They don't cause
any problems and the compiler will remove redundant stores, so there's
no benefit in dropping them.

-- 
Kees Cook