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Avoid re-check of usermode condition.
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Authored by kib on Jan 1 2018, 7:54 PM.
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This change should not change anything in the behavior of trap_pfault(), while eliminating obfuscation of jumping to the code which checks for reversed condition.

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Fix amd64 portion of the patch.

sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c
663 ↗(On Diff #37366)

The unconditional initialization of the variable "rv" to zero is now redundant. Arguably, zero was never a value of the correct type for its initialization, because it's not a KERN_*.

Remove initialization of rv.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 1 2018, 8:25 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.