[PATCH v2 1/1] device-dax: avoid an unnecessary check in alloc_dev_dax_range()

[Zhen Lei]

Swap the calling sequence of krealloc() and __request_region(), call the
latter first. In this way, the value of dev_dax->nr_range does not need to
be considered when __request_region() failed.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/dax/bus.c | 20 ++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dax/bus.c b/drivers/dax/bus.c
index de7b74505e75e72..359e22ece425ad2 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/dax/bus.c
@@ -772,22 +772,14 @@ static int alloc_dev_dax_range(struct dev_dax *dev_dax, u64 start,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	ranges = krealloc(dev_dax->ranges, sizeof(*ranges)
-			* (dev_dax->nr_range + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!ranges)
+	alloc = __request_region(res, start, size, dev_name(dev), 0);
+	if (!alloc)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	alloc = __request_region(res, start, size, dev_name(dev), 0);
-	if (!alloc) {
-		/*
-		 * If this was an empty set of ranges nothing else
-		 * will release @ranges, so do it now.
-		 */
-		if (!dev_dax->nr_range) {
-			kfree(ranges);
-			ranges = NULL;
-		}
-		dev_dax->ranges = ranges;
+	ranges = krealloc(dev_dax->ranges, sizeof(*ranges)
+			* (dev_dax->nr_range + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ranges) {
+		__release_region(res, alloc->start, resource_size(alloc));
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-- 
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