epoll: avoid kmemcheck warning

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Epoll calls rb_set_parent(n, n) to initialize the rb-tree node, but
rb_set_parent() accesses node's pointer in its code.  This creates a
warning in kmemcheck (reported by Vegard Nossum) about an uninitialized
memory access.  The warning is harmless since the following rb-tree node
insert is going to overwrite the node data.  In any case I think it's
better to not have that happening at all, and fix it by simplifying the
code to get rid of a few lines that became superfluous after the previous
epoll changes.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Davide Libenzi 2008-04-29 00:58:34 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds

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