linux-kernel - [PATCHv2 07/24] sys_swapon: remove initial value of name variable

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Date:	Sat,  5 Mar 2011 13:42:08 -0300
From:	Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>
To:	linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>,
	Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>
Subject: [PATCHv2 07/24] sys_swapon: remove initial value of name variable

Now there is nothing which jumps to the cleanup blocks before the name
variable is set. There is no need to set it initially to NULL anymore.

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>
Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>
Acked-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>
---
 mm/swapfile.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index c97dc4b..8893c10 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1892,7 +1892,7 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_swap_info(void)
 SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
 {
 	struct swap_info_struct *p;
-	char *name = NULL;
+	char *name;
 	struct block_device *bdev = NULL;
 	struct file *swap_file = NULL;
 	struct address_space *mapping;
-- 
1.7.4

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