From edde82b6df70cf10486d7f1e1611151218e6c316 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peng Wang <rocking@whu.edu.cn>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 15:42:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm/slub.c: freelist is ensured to be NULL when new_slab()
fails
new_slab_objects() will return immediately if freelist is not NULL.
if (freelist)
return freelist;
One more assignment operation could be avoided.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181229062512.30469-1-rocking@whu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Peng Wang <rocking@whu.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.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>
---
mm/slub.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index dc777761b6b70..a561f909446d8 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2482,8 +2482,7 @@ static inline void *new_slab_objects(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags,
stat(s, ALLOC_SLAB);
c->page = page;
*pc = c;
- } else
- freelist = NULL;
+ }
return freelist;
}
--
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