mm: memory-failure: fix potential unexpected return value from unpoison_memory()
If unpoison_memory() fails to clear page hwpoisoned flag, return value ret is expected to be -EBUSY. But when get_hwpoison_page() returns 1 and fails to clear page hwpoisoned flag due to races, return value will be unexpected 1 leading to users being confused. And there's a code smell that the variable "ret" is used not only to save the return value of unpoison_memory(), but also the return value from get_hwpoison_page(). Make a further cleanup by using another auto-variable solely to save the return value of get_hwpoison_page() as suggested by Naoya. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230727115643.639741-3-linmiaohe@huawei.com Fixes: bf181c58 ("mm/hwpoison: fix unpoison_memory()") Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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