[PATCH v2 15/16] fs/proc: update vmcore to use .proc_mmap_prepare

Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes at oracle.com
Fri Sep 12 03:14:16 PDT 2025


Hi Andrew,

Can you apply the below fix-patch to address a trivial variable use warning,
thanks!

Cheers, Lorenzo

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>From b9d0c3b39d97309bf572af443e2190bb20f6b976 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes at oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:12:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] vmcore fix

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes at oracle.com>
---
 fs/proc/vmcore.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
index faf811ed9b15..028c8c904cbb 100644
--- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
@@ -592,11 +592,10 @@ static int mmap_prepare_action_vmcore(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
 	struct mmap_action action;
 	size_t size = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start;
-	u64 start, end, len, tsz;
+	u64 start, len, tsz;
 	struct vmcore_range *m;

 	start = (u64)vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
-	end = start + size;
 	len = 0;

 	if (start < elfcorebuf_sz) {
--
2.51.0



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