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[8/8] powerpc/nvram: Move an assignment for the variable "err" in nvram_scan_partitions()

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SF Markus Elfring Jan. 19, 2017, 5:05 p.m. UTC 
From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:27:37 +0100

A local variable was set to an error code before a concrete error situation
was detected. Thus move the corresponding assignment into an if branch
to indicate a software failure there.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
index ed54147e3c60..5172115c4ef1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
@@ -1173,9 +1173,10 @@  int __init nvram_scan_partitions(void)
 			goto out;
 		}
 		tmp_part = kmalloc(sizeof(*tmp_part), GFP_KERNEL);
-		err = -ENOMEM;
-		if (!tmp_part)
+		if (!tmp_part) {
+			err = -ENOMEM;
 			goto out;
+		}
 		
 		memcpy(&tmp_part->header, &phead, NVRAM_HEADER_LEN);
 		tmp_part->index = cur_index;