On Friday, December 20, 2024 00:13 CET, Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
The patch titled Subject: lib/inflate.c: remove dead code has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is lib-remove-dead-code.patch
This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...
This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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Thank you, Ariel
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From: Ariel Otilibili ariel.otilibili-anieli@eurecom.fr Subject: lib/inflate.c: remove dead code Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 10:21:12 +0100
This is a follow up from a discussion in Xen:
The if-statement tests that `res` is non-zero; meaning the case zero is never reached.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/7587b503-b2ca-4476-8dc9-e9683d4ca5f0@suse.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241219092615.644642-2-ariel.otilibili-anieli@eur... Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Ariel Otilibili ariel.otilibili-anieli@eurecom.fr Suggested-by: Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com Cc: Andrew Cooper andrew.cooper3@citrix.com Cc: Anthony PERARD anthony.perard@vates.tech Cc: Michal Orzel michal.orzel@amd.com Cc: Julien Grall julien@xen.org Cc: Roger Pau Monné roger.pau@citrix.com Cc: Stefano Stabellini sstabellini@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org
lib/inflate.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/lib/inflate.c~lib-remove-dead-code +++ a/lib/inflate.c @@ -1257,8 +1257,6 @@ static int INIT gunzip(void) /* Decompress */ if ((res = inflate())) { switch (res) {
case 0:break;_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ariel.otilibili-anieli@eurecom.fr are
lib-remove-dead-code.patch