When writing some pids to target_ids interface, calling scanf() to get 'id' may be failed. If the value of '*nr_ids' is 0 at this time, there is no need to return 'ids' here, we just need to release it and return NULL pointer to improve related code operation efficiency. Signed-off-by: Xin Hao <xhao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/damon/dbgfs.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/damon/dbgfs.c b/mm/damon/dbgfs.c index a02cf6bee8e8..2d77bf579ffb 100644 --- a/mm/damon/dbgfs.c +++ b/mm/damon/dbgfs.c @@ -308,21 +308,25 @@ static unsigned long *str_to_target_ids(const char *str, ssize_t len, unsigned long *ids; const int max_nr_ids = 32; unsigned long id; - int pos = 0, parsed, ret; + int pos = 0, parsed; *nr_ids = 0; ids = kmalloc_array(max_nr_ids, sizeof(id), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ids) return NULL; while (*nr_ids < max_nr_ids && pos < len) { - ret = sscanf(&str[pos], "%lu%n", &id, &parsed); - pos += parsed; - if (ret != 1) + if (sscanf(&str[pos], "%lu%n", &id, &parsed) != 1) break; + pos += parsed; ids[*nr_ids] = id; *nr_ids += 1; } + if (!*nr_ids) { + kfree(ids); + return NULL; + } + return ids; } -- 2.31.0