Re: [PATCH] power: swap: Remove unnecessary ‘0’ values from ret

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 4:13 AM Li kunyu <kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 'ret 'is first assigned a value and then used, it does not need to be
> assigned at definition time.

But the compiler may be confused, at least in the first case.

> Signed-off-by: Li kunyu <kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/power/swap.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/power/swap.c b/kernel/power/swap.c
> index 90bb583c57bf7..32e8cb6ceaea4 100644
> --- a/kernel/power/swap.c
> +++ b/kernel/power/swap.c
> @@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ static int save_image_lzo(struct swap_map_handle *handle,
>                            unsigned int nr_to_write)
>  {
>         unsigned int m;
> -       int ret = 0;
> +       int ret;

It is better to leave the code as is here as the compiler may still
complain about the initialization of ret.

>         int nr_pages;
>         int err2;
>         struct hib_bio_batch hb;
> @@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@ static int load_image(struct swap_map_handle *handle,
>                        unsigned int nr_to_read)
>  {
>         unsigned int m;
> -       int ret = 0;
> +       int ret;
>         ktime_t start;
>         ktime_t stop;
>         struct hib_bio_batch hb;
> @@ -1166,7 +1166,7 @@ static int load_image_lzo(struct swap_map_handle *handle,
>                            unsigned int nr_to_read)
>  {
>         unsigned int m;
> -       int ret = 0;
> +       int ret;
>         int eof = 0;
>         struct hib_bio_batch hb;
>         ktime_t start;
> --
> 2.18.2
>