[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory.c: simplify error handling in insert_pages()

[Avi Weiss]

Initialize error return status to zero and then set it as needed at each
point of failure.

Assign -ENOMEM explicitly when pte_alloc() fails as the pte_alloc()
macro returns a boolean.

Signed-off-by: Avi Weiss <thnkslprpt@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/memory.c | 22 +++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 8658feba8be9..11bb4fb98761 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2434,20 +2434,22 @@ static int insert_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 	unsigned long curr_page_idx = 0;
 	unsigned long remaining_pages_total = *num;
 	unsigned long pages_to_write_in_pmd;
-	int ret;
+	int err = 0;
 more:
-	ret = -EFAULT;
 	pmd = populate_to_pmd(mm, addr);
-	if (!pmd)
+	if (!pmd) {
+		err = -EFAULT;
 		goto out;
+	}
 
 	pages_to_write_in_pmd = min_t(unsigned long,
 		remaining_pages_total, PTRS_PER_PTE - pte_index(addr));
 
 	/* Allocate the PTE if necessary; takes PMD lock once only. */
-	ret = -ENOMEM;
-	if (pte_alloc(mm, pmd))
+	if (pte_alloc(mm, pmd)) {
+		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
+	}
 
 	while (pages_to_write_in_pmd) {
 		int pte_idx = 0;
@@ -2455,15 +2457,14 @@ static int insert_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 
 		start_pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &pte_lock);
 		if (!start_pte) {
-			ret = -EFAULT;
+			err = -EFAULT;
 			goto out;
 		}
 		for (pte = start_pte; pte_idx < batch_size; ++pte, ++pte_idx) {
-			int err = insert_page_in_batch_locked(vma, pte,
-				addr, pages[curr_page_idx], prot);
+			err = insert_page_in_batch_locked(vma, pte, addr,
+							  pages[curr_page_idx], prot);
 			if (unlikely(err)) {
 				pte_unmap_unlock(start_pte, pte_lock);
-				ret = err;
 				remaining_pages_total -= pte_idx;
 				goto out;
 			}
@@ -2476,10 +2477,9 @@ static int insert_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 	}
 	if (remaining_pages_total)
 		goto more;
-	ret = 0;
 out:
 	*num = remaining_pages_total;
-	return ret;
+	return err;
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.43.0