[PATCH v5.5 29/30] KVM: Wait 'til the bitter end to initialize the "new" memslot

Maciej S. Szmigiero maciej.szmigiero at oracle.com
Thu Nov 11 15:52:47 PST 2021


On 04.11.2021 01:25, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Initialize the "new" memslot in the !DELETE path only after the various
> sanity checks have passed.  This will allow a future commit to allocate
> @new dynamically without having to copy a memslot, and without having to
> deal with freeing @new in error paths and in the "nothing to change" path
> that's hiding in the sanity checks.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero at oracle.com>



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