linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] module: Avoid unnecessary return value initialization in move

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Message-ID: <4c5d1ff8-7018-489c-b238-d838080b66ce@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:56:22 +0200
From: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@...nel.org>
To: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>, Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
 Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>, Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@...sung.com>
Cc: linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] module: Avoid unnecessary return value initialization
 in move_module()

On 07/06/2025 18.16, Petr Pavlu wrote:
> All error conditions in move_module() set the return value by updating the
> ret variable. Therefore, it is not necessary to the initialize the variable
> when declaring it.
> 
> Remove the unnecessary initialization.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@...sung.com>

> ---
>  kernel/module/main.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c
> index 322b38c0a782..06511607075c 100644
> --- a/kernel/module/main.c
> +++ b/kernel/module/main.c
> @@ -2615,7 +2615,7 @@ static int move_module(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
>  {
>  	int i;
>  	enum mod_mem_type t;
> -	int ret = -ENOMEM;
> +	int ret;

Nit:

We can "merge" all integers in one line.