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Message-ID: <48ec32eb-145d-d6fd-e2d3-bd4a4087627b@huaweicloud.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 20:17:08 +0800
From: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
To: yangerkun <yangerkun@...wei.com>, tytso@....edu,
 adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, jack@...e.cz
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: return 0 when ext4_get_group_info failed in
 __mb_check_buddy



on 1/2/2024 7:20 PM, yangerkun wrote:
> The return value for __mb_check_buddy should be a integer. Found this by
> code review.
> 
Hi yangerkun,
I think the return value of __mb_check_buddy is actually not used and can
be removed. See [1] for details :). Thanks!

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231125161143.3945726-2-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com/

> Fixes: 5354b2af3406 ("ext4: allow ext4_get_group_info() to fail")
> Signed-off-by: yangerkun <yangerkun@...wei.com>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> index d72b5e3c92ec..55c70a1b445a 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> @@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ static int __mb_check_buddy(struct ext4_buddy *e4b, char *file,
>  
>  	grp = ext4_get_group_info(sb, e4b->bd_group);
>  	if (!grp)
> -		return NULL;
> +		return 0;
>  	list_for_each(cur, &grp->bb_prealloc_list) {
>  		ext4_group_t groupnr;
>  		struct ext4_prealloc_space *pa;
> 


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