Removed redundant initialization of res to 0, since eventfd_write in blocking mode guarantees res to be either sizeof(ucnt) or -ERESTARTSYS. Signed-off-by: Sasikantha babu <sasikanth.v19@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/eventfd.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/eventfd.c b/fs/eventfd.c index dba15fe..6bd051c 100644 --- a/fs/eventfd.c +++ b/fs/eventfd.c @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ static ssize_t eventfd_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t c res = sizeof(ucnt); else if (!(file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)) { __add_wait_queue(&ctx->wqh, &wait); - for (res = 0;;) { + for (;;) { set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); if (ULLONG_MAX - ctx->count > ucnt) { res = sizeof(ucnt); -- 1.7.3.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html