linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: remove redundant operation that set bh to NULL

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Date:   Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:10:18 +0800
From:   "zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
To:     <xiakaixu1987@...il.com>, <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <tytso@....edu>, <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@...cent.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: remove redundant operation that set bh to NULL

On 2020/10/20 19:41, xiakaixu1987@...il.com wrote:
> From: Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@...cent.com>
> 
> The out_fail branch path don't release the bh and the second bh is
> valid only in the for statement, so we don't need to set them to NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@...cent.com>

Thanks for the patch. It looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@...wei.com>

Yi.

> ---
>  fs/ext4/super.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index 5308f0d5fb5a..3ebfabc6061a 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -4093,7 +4093,6 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
>  	if (IS_ERR(bh)) {
>  		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "unable to read superblock");
>  		ret = PTR_ERR(bh);
> -		bh = NULL;
>  		goto out_fail;
>  	}
>  	/*
> @@ -4721,7 +4720,6 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
>  			       "can't read group descriptor %d", i);
>  			db_count = i;
>  			ret = PTR_ERR(bh);
> -			bh = NULL;
>  			goto failed_mount2;
>  		}
>  		rcu_read_lock();
>