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ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune

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Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially
stale pointer.

There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page
the other is stable_node_dup.  Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to
check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node.  Similarly in
chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the
stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as
parameter.

Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be
more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for
reference instead of the reverse.

This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune
as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page
behavior more closely.  There's no change to the caller at all except
the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point
of view.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrea Arcangeli 2017-07-06 15:37:05 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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