linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: uvc: fix returnvar.cocci warnings

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Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:18:04 +0200
From:	Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@...sung.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	kbuild-all@...org, Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: uvc: fix returnvar.cocci warnings

Hi Julia,

W dniu 17.09.2015 o 10:57, Julia Lawall pisze:
> Coccinelle suggests the following patch.  But the code is curious.  Is the
> function expected to always return a failure value?
>

Thank you for catching this. The function is not expected to always
return a failure value. Fortunately it does not matter anyway because
the return value of the drop_link() operation is silently ignored by
its caller in fs/configfs/symlink.c, functions configfs_symlink()
and configfs_unlink(). For my comments see inline.

> thanks,
> julia
>
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, kbuild test robot wrote:
>
>> TO: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@...sung.com>
>> CC: kbuild-all@...org
>> CC: Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
>> CC: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
>> CC: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
>> CC: linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
>> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
>>
>> drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c:866:5-8: Unneeded variable: "ret". Return "- EINVAL" on line 891
>>
>>
>>   Remove unneeded variable used to store return value.
>>
>> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/misc/returnvar.cocci
>>
>> CC: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@...sung.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Please take the patch only if it's a positive warning. Thanks!
>>
>>   uvc_configfs.c |    3 +--
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c
>> +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c
>> @@ -863,7 +863,6 @@ static int uvcg_streaming_header_drop_li
>>   	struct uvcg_streaming_header *src_hdr;
>>   	struct uvcg_format *target_fmt = NULL;
>>   	struct uvcg_format_ptr *format_ptr, *tmp;
>> -	int ret = -EINVAL;
>>
>>   	src_hdr = to_uvcg_streaming_header(src);
>>   	mutex_lock(su_mutex); /* for navigating configfs hierarchy */
>> @@ -888,7 +887,7 @@ static int uvcg_streaming_header_drop_li
>>   out:
>>   	mutex_unlock(&opts->lock);
>>   	mutex_unlock(su_mutex);
>> -	return ret;
>> +	return -EINVAL;

return 0;


Thanks,

AP
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