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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: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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