linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] mm: memcontrol: remove dead code from memory_max

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Date:   Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:15:17 -0400
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm: memcontrol: remove dead code from memory_max_write()

When the reclaim loop in memory_max_write() is ^C'd or similar, we set
err to -EINTR. But we don't return err. Once the limit is set, we
always return success (nbytes). Delete the dead code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 055975b0b3a3..ff90d4e7df37 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -6122,10 +6122,8 @@ static ssize_t memory_max_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
 		if (nr_pages <= max)
 			break;
 
-		if (signal_pending(current)) {
-			err = -EINTR;
+		if (signal_pending(current))
 			break;
-		}
 
 		if (!drained) {
 			drain_all_stock(memcg);
-- 
2.23.0