Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: mm: Fix dead assignment of old_pte

From: Will Deacon
Date: Wed Jul 03 2019 - 05:17:20 EST


On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 04:41:35PM -0700, Nathan Huckleberry wrote:
> When analyzed with the clang static analyzer the
> following warning occurs
>
> line 251, column 2
> Value stored to 'old_pte' is never read
>
> This warning is repeated every time pgtable.h is
> included by another file and produces ~3500
> extra warnings.

Does this warning actually trigger with linux-next?

Will