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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/6] mm: get_user_pages: consolidate error handling
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On 10/11/18 11:30 PM, Balbir Singh wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 11:00:09PM -0700, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote:
>> From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
>>
>> An upcoming patch requires a way to operate on each page that
>> any of the get_user_pages_*() variants returns.
>>
>> In preparation for that, consolidate the error handling for
>> __get_user_pages(). This provides a single location (the "out:" label)
>> for operating on the collected set of pages that are about to be returned.
>>
>> As long every use of the "ret" variable is being edited, rename
>> "ret" --> "err", so that its name matches its true role.
>> This also gets rid of two shadowed variable declarations, as a
>> tiny beneficial a side effect.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
>> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
>> ---
>
> Looks good, might not be needed but
> Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
>

Thanks for the review, very good to have another set of eyes on
this one.

--
thanks,
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

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