mm/slab_common.c: initialize kmem_cache pointer to NULL The assignment to NULL within the error condition was written in a 2014 patch to suppress a compiler warning. However it would be cleaner to just initialize the kmem_cache to NULL and just return it in case of an error condition. Signed-off-by: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c index fba78e4..d88e97c 100644 --- a/mm/slab_common.c +++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *)) { - struct kmem_cache *s; + struct kmem_cache *s = NULL; const char *cache_name; int err; @@ -396,7 +396,6 @@ err = kmem_cache_sanity_check(name, size); if (err) { - s = NULL; /* suppress uninit var warning */ goto out_unlock; }