linux-kernel - [PATCH 05/12] staging: lustre: Optimize error handling in class_register

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Message-ID: <d1f69f4d-539b-e97d-fc0e-cb0a8754bd3a@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jul 2016 21:05:48 +0200
From:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 05/12] staging: lustre: Optimize error handling in
 class_register_type()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:23:23 +0200

Return a constant error code without storing it in the local variable "rc"
after a failed memory allocation at the beginning of this function.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/genops.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/genops.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/genops.c
index fd5e61f..4752091 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/genops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/genops.c
@@ -152,10 +152,9 @@ int class_register_type(struct obd_ops *dt_ops, struct md_ops *md_ops,
 		return -EEXIST;
 	}
 
-	rc = -ENOMEM;
 	type = kzalloc(sizeof(*type), GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!type)
-		return rc;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	type->typ_dt_ops = kzalloc(sizeof(*type->typ_dt_ops), GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!type->typ_dt_ops) {
-- 
2.9.2