linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC 1/3] jbd2: Drop useless return value of submit

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Date:   Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:39:16 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] jbd2: Drop useless return value of submit_bh

On Mon 20-06-22 11:28:40, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> submit_bh always returns 0. This patch cleans up 2 of it's caller
> in jbd2 to drop submit_bh's useless return value.
> Once all submit_bh callers are cleaned up, we can make it's return
> type as void.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@...il.com>

Looks good. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  fs/jbd2/commit.c  | 11 +++++------
>  fs/jbd2/journal.c |  6 ++----
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
> index eb315e81f1a6..688fd960d01f 100644
> --- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
> +++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
> @@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ static int journal_submit_commit_record(journal_t *journal,
>  {
>  	struct commit_header *tmp;
>  	struct buffer_head *bh;
> -	int ret;
>  	struct timespec64 now;
> +	int write_flags = REQ_SYNC;
>  
>  	*cbh = NULL;
>  
> @@ -155,13 +155,12 @@ static int journal_submit_commit_record(journal_t *journal,
>  
>  	if (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER &&
>  	    !jbd2_has_feature_async_commit(journal))
> -		ret = submit_bh(REQ_OP_WRITE,
> -			REQ_SYNC | REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA, bh);
> -	else
> -		ret = submit_bh(REQ_OP_WRITE, REQ_SYNC, bh);
> +		write_flags |= REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA;
> +
> +	submit_bh(REQ_OP_WRITE, write_flags, bh);
>  
>  	*cbh = bh;
> -	return ret;
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  /*
> diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> index c0cbeeaec2d1..81a282e676bc 100644
> --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> @@ -1606,7 +1606,7 @@ static int jbd2_write_superblock(journal_t *journal, int write_flags)
>  {
>  	struct buffer_head *bh = journal->j_sb_buffer;
>  	journal_superblock_t *sb = journal->j_superblock;
> -	int ret;
> +	int ret = 0;
>  
>  	/* Buffer got discarded which means block device got invalidated */
>  	if (!buffer_mapped(bh)) {
> @@ -1636,14 +1636,12 @@ static int jbd2_write_superblock(journal_t *journal, int write_flags)
>  		sb->s_checksum = jbd2_superblock_csum(journal, sb);
>  	get_bh(bh);
>  	bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync;
> -	ret = submit_bh(REQ_OP_WRITE, write_flags, bh);
> +	submit_bh(REQ_OP_WRITE, write_flags, bh);
>  	wait_on_buffer(bh);
>  	if (buffer_write_io_error(bh)) {
>  		clear_buffer_write_io_error(bh);
>  		set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
>  		ret = -EIO;
> -	}
> -	if (ret) {
>  		printk(KERN_ERR "JBD2: Error %d detected when updating "
>  		       "journal superblock for %s.\n", ret,
>  		       journal->j_devname);
> -- 
> 2.35.3
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR