Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: KVM: Remove unnecessary 'ret' assignments

From: Anup Patel

Date: Sun Jan 04 2026 - 07:48:05 EST


On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM Qiang Ma <maqianga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If the program can execute up to this point, indicating that
> kvm_vcpu_write_guest() returns 0, and the actual value of
> SBI_SUCCESS is also 0. At this time, ret does not need to be
> assigned a value of 0.
>
> Fixes: e309fd113b9f ("RISC-V: KVM: Implement get event info function")
>
> Signed-off-by: Qiang Ma <maqianga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Simplified commit description and queued it for Linux-6.19 fixes.

Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Anup

> ---
> arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c | 5 +----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c
> index a2fae70ee174..4d8d5e9aa53d 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c
> @@ -494,12 +494,9 @@ int kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long saddr_low
> }
>
> ret = kvm_vcpu_write_guest(vcpu, shmem, einfo, shmem_size);
> - if (ret) {
> + if (ret)
> ret = SBI_ERR_INVALID_ADDRESS;
> - goto free_mem;
> - }
>
> - ret = 0;
> free_mem:
> kfree(einfo);
> out:
> --
> 2.20.1
>