From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: remove unused code in kvm_coalesced_mmio_init() Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:09:50 +0300 Message-ID: <4BC345CE.9070501@redhat.com> References: <20100412093452.GB2707@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mtosatti@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: wzt.wzt@gmail.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100412093452.GB2707@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 04/12/2010 12:34 PM, wzt.wzt@gmail.com wrote: > ret is already set as ENOMEM before, so the second ret = -ENOMEM; can be removed. > > > diff --git a/virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c b/virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c > index 5169736..c0dcfb7 100644 > --- a/virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c > +++ b/virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c > @@ -101,7 +101,6 @@ int kvm_coalesced_mmio_init(struct kvm *kvm) > goto out_err; > kvm->coalesced_mmio_ring = page_address(page); > > - ret = -ENOMEM; > dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_coalesced_mmio_dev), GFP_KERNEL); > if (!dev) > goto out_free_page; > I prefer to keep it there and let the compiler do the elimination. Otherwise inserting any code in the middle may cause a bug (the assignment is logically part of the code block, it only matches the previous one by accident). -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.