linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs/eventpoll: error handling micro-cleanup

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Date:	Sun, 1 Oct 2006 08:43:52 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	davidel@...ilserver.org
Subject: [PATCH] fs/eventpoll: error handling micro-cleanup


While reviewing the 'may be used uninitialized' bogus gcc warnings,
I noticed that an error code assignment was only needed if an error had
actually occured.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 8d54433..557d5b6 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -720,9 +720,10 @@ static int ep_getfd(int *efd, struct ino
 
 	/* Allocates an inode from the eventpoll file system */
 	inode = ep_eventpoll_inode();
-	error = PTR_ERR(inode);
-	if (IS_ERR(inode))
+	if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
+		error = PTR_ERR(inode);
 		goto eexit_2;
+	}
 
 	/* Allocates a free descriptor to plug the file onto */
 	error = get_unused_fd();
-
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