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    ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune · 8dc5ffcd
    Andrea Arcangeli authored
    Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially
    stale pointer.
    
    There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page
    the other is stable_node_dup.  Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to
    check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node.  Similarly in
    chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the
    stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as
    parameter.
    
    Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be
    more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for
    reference instead of the reverse.
    
    This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune
    as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page
    behavior more closely.  There's no change to the caller at all except
    the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point
    of view.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
    Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
    Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
    Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com>
    Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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