Commit 40911a79 authored by Alexandru Moise's avatar Alexandru Moise Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: default avatarAlexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 76f8ec71
......@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *
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 @@ kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align,
err = kmem_cache_sanity_check(name, size);
if (err) {
s = NULL; /* suppress uninit var warning */
goto out_unlock;
}
......
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