linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/14] RDMA/cxgb4: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in create

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Message-ID: <20170209090223.GM6005@mtr-leonro.local>
Date:   Thu, 9 Feb 2017 11:02:23 +0200
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
        Steve Wise <swise@...lsio.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/14] RDMA/cxgb4: Delete an unnecessary variable
 initialisation in create_qp()

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 10:22:28PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 21:07:07 +0100
>
> The local variable "ret" will be set to an appropriate value a bit later.
> Thus omit the explicit initialisation at the beginning in this function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c
> index 373d66a511a8..ac63b1f70731 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c
> @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static int create_qp(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, struct t4_wq *wq,
>  	int wr_len;
>  	struct c4iw_wr_wait wr_wait;
>  	struct sk_buff *skb;
> -	int ret = 0;
> +	int ret;

The more clean approach will be to initialize this variable to -ENOMEM
and remove rest "ret = -ENOMEM" from the function.

>  	int eqsize;
>
>  	wq->sq.qid = c4iw_get_qpid(rdev, uctx);
> --
> 2.11.1
>
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