linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: initialize kmem

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1510201506060.30214@east.gentwo.org>
Date:	Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:06:19 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@...il.com>
cc:	penberg@...nel.org, rientjes@...gle.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: initialize kmem_cache pointer to NULL

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Alexandru Moise wrote:

> The assignment to NULL within the error condition was written
> in a 2014 patch to suppress a compiler warning.
> However it would be cleaner to just initialize the kmem_cache
> to NULL and just return it in case of an error condition.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>

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