[merged mm-nonmm-stable] drm-remove-dead-warn_on-null-check-after-gfp_nofail-allocation.patch removed from -mm tree

Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:06:05 -0700
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.mm-commits
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The quilt patch titled
     Subject: drm: remove dead WARN_ON NULL check after GFP_NOFAIL allocation
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     drm-remove-dead-warn_on-null-check-after-gfp_nofail-allocation.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Gou Hao <[email protected]>
Subject: drm: remove dead WARN_ON NULL check after GFP_NOFAIL allocation
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:28:49 +0800

kzalloc_obj with the __GFP_NOFAIL flag will never return NULL, so the
subsequent WARN_ON(!ctx) is unreachable dead code.  Remove it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Gou Hao <[email protected]>
Cc: Bharat Potnuri <[email protected]>
Cc: Cédric Le Goater <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Airlie <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Cc: jiazhenyuan <[email protected]>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <[email protected]>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Nam Cao <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Nilay Shroff <[email protected]>
Cc: Shrikanth Hegde <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Wentao Guan <[email protected]>
Cc: Alistair Popple <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c |    4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c~drm-remove-dead-warn_on-null-check-after-gfp_nofail-allocation
+++ a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c
@@ -149,11 +149,7 @@ void drm_modeset_lock_all(struct drm_dev
 	int ret;
 
 	ctx = kzalloc_obj(*ctx, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
-	if (WARN_ON(!ctx))
-		return;
-
 	mutex_lock(&config->mutex);
-
 	drm_modeset_acquire_init(ctx, 0);
 
 retry:
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are