On Wed, 28 Mar 2018, Laurent Dufour wrote: > >> @@ -2913,7 +2921,8 @@ int do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf) > >> int exclusive = 0; > >> int ret = 0; > > > > Initialization is now unneeded. > > I'm sorry, what "initialization" are you talking about here ? > The initialization of the ret variable. @@ -2913,7 +2921,8 @@ int do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf) int exclusive = 0; int ret = 0; - if (!pte_unmap_same(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd, vmf->pte, vmf->orig_pte)) + ret = pte_unmap_same(vmf); + if (ret) goto out; entry = pte_to_swp_entry(vmf->orig_pte); "ret" is immediately set to the return value of pte_unmap_same(), so there is no need to initialize it to 0.