[PATCH] x86/iperm: remove unused pointers

From: Alex Shi
Date: Tue Jan 21 2020 - 03:41:00 EST


No one use the prev/next pointers in its function after commit 22fe5b0439dd
("x86/ioperm: Move TSS bitmap update to exit to user work"). So better to
remove them.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 61e93a318983..839b5244e3b7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -615,12 +615,8 @@ void speculation_ctrl_update_current(void)

void __switch_to_xtra(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p)
{
- struct thread_struct *prev, *next;
unsigned long tifp, tifn;

- prev = &prev_p->thread;
- next = &next_p->thread;
-
tifn = READ_ONCE(task_thread_info(next_p)->flags);
tifp = READ_ONCE(task_thread_info(prev_p)->flags);

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1.8.3.1