It's guaranteed that the vma is associated with a resv_map, i.e. either VM_MAYSHARE or HPAGE_RESV_OWNER, when the code reaches here or we would have returned via !resv check above. So ret must be less than 0 in the 'else' case. Simplify the return code to make this clear. Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index a03a50b7c410..b7864abded3d 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -2183,7 +2183,7 @@ static long __vma_reservation_common(struct hstate *h, return 1; } else - return ret < 0 ? ret : 0; + return ret; } static long vma_needs_reservation(struct hstate *h, -- 2.19.1