linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/ttm: remove redundant initialization of variable ret

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Date:   Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:56:09 +0200
From:   Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
To:     Jing Xiangfeng <jingxiangfeng@...wei.com>, ray.huang@....com,
        airlied@...ux.ie, daniel@...ll.ch
Cc:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/ttm: remove redundant initialization of variable ret

Am 17.09.20 um 13:42 schrieb Jing Xiangfeng:
> The variable ret is being initialized with '-ENOMEM' that is
> meaningless. So remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jing Xiangfeng <jingxiangfeng@...wei.com>

Stumbled over the same thing just a few days ago, so this is already 
fixed in my branch.

> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.c
> index 3437711ddb43..4db87b9b57a8 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.c
> @@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ int ttm_tt_swapout(struct ttm_tt *ttm, struct file *persistent_swap_storage)
>   	struct page *from_page;
>   	struct page *to_page;
>   	int i;
> -	int ret = -ENOMEM;
> +	int ret;
>   
>   	BUG_ON(ttm->state != tt_unbound && ttm->state != tt_unpopulated);
>   	BUG_ON(ttm->caching_state != tt_cached);