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From: "Figo.zhang" <figo1802@gmail.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmalloc.c: fix double error checking
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:40:06 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247013611.2597.22.camel@myhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A53E602.6030505@kernel.org>

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 09:19 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Figo.zhang wrote:
> > it is no need for double error checking.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com>
> > -		err = vmap_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, prot, pages, &nr);
> > -		if (err)
> > -			break;
> > +		if (vmap_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, prot, pages, &nr))
> > +			return -ENOMEM;
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to keep the error return value?

see the vmap_pud_range(), if suceed return 0, if error return "-ENOMEM",
so it had better use clearly logic if error directly return "-EOMEM",
avoid double checking.

Best,
Figo.zhang


> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> tejun


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-08  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-07 16:13 [PATCH] vmalloc.c: fix double error checking Figo.zhang
2009-07-08  0:19 ` Tejun Heo
2009-07-08  0:40   ` Figo.zhang [this message]
2009-07-08  2:02     ` Tejun Heo
2009-07-08  2:11 ` [PATCH v2] " Figo.zhang
2009-07-08  2:16   ` Tejun Heo

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