Instead of complicating the code to avoid a spin_lock_irqsave() / spin_lock_irqrestore() pair before returning, simplify the code by removing the local variable 'empty'. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c index 3d66aec36899..4424f430fc08 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c @@ -1017,16 +1017,13 @@ static void cm_work_handler(struct work_struct *_work) struct iw_cm_event levent; struct iwcm_id_private *cm_id_priv = work->cm_id; unsigned long flags; - int empty; int ret = 0; spin_lock_irqsave(&cm_id_priv->lock, flags); - empty = list_empty(&cm_id_priv->work_list); - while (!empty) { + while (!list_empty(&cm_id_priv->work_list)) { work = list_first_entry(&cm_id_priv->work_list, struct iwcm_work, list); list_del_init(&work->list); - empty = list_empty(&cm_id_priv->work_list); levent = work->event; put_work(work); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cm_id_priv->lock, flags); @@ -1039,8 +1036,6 @@ static void cm_work_handler(struct work_struct *_work) pr_debug("dropping event %d\n", levent.event); if (iwcm_deref_id(cm_id_priv)) return; - if (empty) - return; spin_lock_irqsave(&cm_id_priv->lock, flags); } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cm_id_priv->lock, flags);