Re: [PATCH] mm: initialize kmem_cache pointer to NULL

From: David Rientjes
Date: Wed Oct 21 2015 - 16:34:55 EST


On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Alexandru Moise wrote:

> 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@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
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