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From:   Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 6 Dec 2021 16:46:01 +0100
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Subject: Unused local variable load_addr in load_elf_binary()
To:     Akira Kawata <akirakawata1@gmail.com>
Cc:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
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Dear Akira-san,

With commit 0c9333606e30 ("fs/binfmt_elf: Fix AT_PHDR for unusual ELF
files"), you have changed load_elf_binary() in ./fs/binfmt_elf.c in a
way such that the local variable load_addr in load_elf_binary() is not
used anymore.

I had a quick look at the code and I think the following refactoring
would be good:

1. Remove the definition of load_addr and its unneeded computation of load_addr

2. Rename load_addr_set to first (or a similar name) to represent that
this variable is not linked to the non-existing load_addr, but states
that it captures the first iteration of the loop. Note that first has
the inverse meaning of load_addr_set.

The issue was reported by make clang-analyzer:

./fs/binfmt_elf.c:1167:5: warning: Value stored to 'load_addr' is
never read [clang-analyzer-deadcode.DeadStores]
                                load_addr += load_bias;
                                ^            ~~~~~~~~~


Best regards,

Lukas