From: Andrew Price <[email protected]> Despite the return value from kmem_cache_zalloc() being checked, the error wasn't being returned until after a possible null pointer dereference. This patch returns the error immediately, allowing the removal of the error variable.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Price <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <[email protected]> diff --git a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c index 3cc402c..43d1a20 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c @@ -553,7 +553,6 @@ void gfs2_free_clones(struct gfs2_rgrpd *rgd) */ int gfs2_rs_alloc(struct gfs2_inode *ip) { - int error = 0; struct gfs2_blkreserv *res; if (ip->i_res) @@ -561,7 +560,7 @@ int gfs2_rs_alloc(struct gfs2_inode *ip) res = kmem_cache_zalloc(gfs2_rsrv_cachep, GFP_NOFS); if (!res) - error = -ENOMEM; + return -ENOMEM; RB_CLEAR_NODE(&res->rs_node); @@ -571,7 +570,7 @@ int gfs2_rs_alloc(struct gfs2_inode *ip) else ip->i_res = res; up_write(&ip->i_rw_mutex); - return error; + return 0; } static void dump_rs(struct seq_file *seq, const struct gfs2_blkreserv *rs) -- 1.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
