linux-ext4 - [PATCH v2 09/20] ext4: Remove unnecessary release when memory allocation failed in ext4_mb_init

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Message-Id: <20230228114306.3328235-10-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:42:55 +0800
From:   Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
To:     tytso@....edu, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, jack@...e.cz,
        ojaswin@...ux.ibm.com, ritesh.list@...il.com
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        shikemeng@...weicloud.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 09/20] ext4: Remove unnecessary release when memory allocation failed in ext4_mb_init_cache

If we alloc array of buffer_head failed, there is no resource need to be
freed and we can simpily return error.

Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 0a34211bb507..64a889b357d2 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -1168,10 +1168,8 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_cache(struct page *page, char *incore, gfp_t gfp)
 	if (groups_per_page > 1) {
 		i = sizeof(struct buffer_head *) * groups_per_page;
 		bh = kzalloc(i, gfp);
-		if (bh == NULL) {
-			err = -ENOMEM;
-			goto out;
-		}
+		if (bh == NULL)
+			return -ENOMEM;
 	} else
 		bh = &bhs;
 
-- 
2.30.0