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

From	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] mm: initialize kmem_cache pointer to NULL
Date	2015-10-21 22:40 +0200
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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@gmail.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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[PATCH] mm: initialize kmem_cache pointer to NULL Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 21:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: initialize kmem_cache pointer to NULL Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2015-10-20 22:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: initialize kmem_cache pointer to NULL David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2015-10-21 22:40 +0200

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