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

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Date:   Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:28:40 +0530
From:   Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@...il.com>
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@...il.com>
Subject: [RFC 1/3] jbd2: Drop useless return value of submit_bh

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>
---
 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