Re: [PATCH v5 03/19] KVM: Don't free new memslot if allocation of said memslot fails

From: Peter Xu
Date: Wed Feb 05 2020 - 17:28:49 EST


On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 02:31:41PM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> The two implementations of kvm_arch_create_memslot() in x86 and PPC are
> both good citizens and free up all local resources if creation fails.
> Return immediately (via a superfluous goto) instead of calling
> kvm_free_memslot().
>
> Note, the call to kvm_free_memslot() is effectively an expensive nop in
> this case as there are no resources to be freed.

(I failed to understand why that is expensive.. but the change looks OK)

>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Peter Xu