linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xfs: remove impossible condition

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Date:	Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:23:33 +0000
From:	Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@....samsung.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cmaiolino@...hat.com,
	darrick.wong@...cle.com, namjae.jeon@...sung.com,
	bfoster@...hat.com, sandeen@...deen.net, xfs@....sgi.com,
	billodo@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: remove impossible condition

On 01/03/16 12:08, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:43:57PM +0000, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
>> bp_release is set to 0 just before the breakpoint of the for loop before
>> the conditional check (in line 458). The other breakpoint is a goto that
>> skips the dead code.
> 
> Yes, this looks correct:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> 
> The whole code around this is rather grotty and could use some more
> work, though..
> 

Thanks for the review Christoph!

If you have some specific things in mind that I could fix in the code around
this, I am happy to add it to my ToDo list. Or I can continue reading it and
let you know of anything I see, so you can confirm before I try to fix it.

Regards,
Luis