linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] selinux: Delete eight unnecessary variable assignments

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Message-ID: <20170813162414.GC4515@mail.hallyn.com>
Date:   Sun, 13 Aug 2017 11:24:14 -0500
From:   "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To:     "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
Cc:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Daniel Jurgens <danielj@...lanox.com>,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
        James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
        Junil Lee <junil0814.lee@....com>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
        William Roberts <william.c.roberts@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] selinux: Delete eight unnecessary variable
 assignments

Quoting Serge E. Hallyn (serge@...lyn.com):
> Quoting SF Markus Elfring (elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net):
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> > Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 14:17:48 +0200
> > 
> > One local variable was reset to zero at the end of these functions.
> > This value will also be set by a previous call of a function if it was
> > executed successfully. Thus omit an extra assignment there.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> 
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>

BTW this does add a burden to the maintainers as it makes the
code a bit more fragile in the face of future changes.  So my
ack means it looks ok, but if the maintainers don't want to take
it I absolutely understand.