[merged mm-nonmm-stable] lib-test_hmm-remove-dead-null-checks-after-gfp_nofail-allocations.patch removed from -mm tree

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: lib/test_hmm: remove dead NULL checks after GFP_NOFAIL allocations
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     lib-test_hmm-remove-dead-null-checks-after-gfp_nofail-allocations.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: lib/test_hmm: remove dead NULL checks after GFP_NOFAIL allocations
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:28:50 +0800

kvcalloc with the __GFP_NOFAIL flag will never return NULL, so the
subsequent NULL checks are unreachable dead code.  Remove them.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Gou Hao <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <[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]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 lib/test_hmm.c |    6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

--- a/lib/test_hmm.c~lib-test_hmm-remove-dead-null-checks-after-gfp_nofail-allocations
+++ a/lib/test_hmm.c
@@ -1312,16 +1312,10 @@ static int dmirror_migrate_to_device(str
 	if (!mmget_not_zero(mm))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	ret = -ENOMEM;
 	src_pfns = kvcalloc(PTRS_PER_PTE, sizeof(*src_pfns),
 			  GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
-	if (!src_pfns)
-		goto free_mem;
-
 	dst_pfns = kvcalloc(PTRS_PER_PTE, sizeof(*dst_pfns),
 			  GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
-	if (!dst_pfns)
-		goto free_mem;
 
 	ret = 0;
 	mmap_read_lock(mm);
_

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