Re: [PATCH] mm/sparse.c: fix error path in sparse_add_one_section

[Oscar Salvador]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 01:06:58PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> The following commit in -next:
> 
> commit 054620849110 ("mm/sparse.c: make sparse_init_one_section void and
> remove check")
> 
> changed how the error handling in sparse_add_one_section() works.
> 
> Previously sparse_index_init() could return -EEXIST, and the function would
> continue on happily.  'ret' would get unconditionally overwritten by the
> result from sparse_init_one_section() and the error code after the 'out:'
> label wouldn't be triggered.

My bad, I missed that.

> diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
> index 9574113fc745..d254bd2d3289 100644
> --- a/mm/sparse.c
> +++ b/mm/sparse.c
> @@ -753,8 +753,12 @@ int __meminit sparse_add_one_section(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
>  	 * plus, it does a kmalloc
>  	 */
>  	ret = sparse_index_init(section_nr, pgdat->node_id);
> -	if (ret < 0 && ret != -EEXIST)
> -		return ret;
> +	if (ret < 0) {
> +		if (ret == -EEXIST)
> +			ret = 0;
> +		else
> +			return ret;
> +	}

sparse_index_init() can return:

-ENOMEM, -EEXIST or 0.

So what about this?:

diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index f55e79fda03e..eb188eb6b82d 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -770,6 +770,7 @@ int __meminit sparse_add_one_section(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
        ret = sparse_index_init(section_nr, pgdat->node_id);
        if (ret < 0 && ret != -EEXIST)
                return ret;
+       ret = 0;

Does this look more clean?
-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3