linux-kernel - Re: linux-5.7-rc4/fs/io_uring.c:2786: bad if test ?

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Date:   Mon, 4 May 2020 07:47:54 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     David Binderman <dcb314@...mail.com>,
        "viro@...iv.linux.org.uk" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "io-uring@...r.kernel.org" <io-uring@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-5.7-rc4/fs/io_uring.c:2786: bad if test ?

On 5/4/20 2:12 AM, David Binderman wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> linux-5.7-rc4/fs/io_uring.c:2786:6: warning: Identical condition 'force_nonblock', second condition is always false [identicalConditionAfterEarlyExit]
> 
> Source code is
> 
>     if (force_nonblock)
>         return -EAGAIN;
> 
>     poff_in = (sp->off_in == -1) ? NULL : &sp->off_in;
>     poff_out = (sp->off_out == -1) ? NULL : &sp->off_out;
>     ret = do_splice(in, poff_in, out, poff_out, sp->len, flags);
>     if (force_nonblock && ret == -EAGAIN)
>         return -EAGAIN;
> 
> So the second return can never execute. Suggest code rework.

Looks like that's a leftover of the "only punt sometimes" code. That
second one is indeed dead now, Pavel is re-working the async punt
for 5.8 anyway so I don't think it's worth touching at this point.

-- 
Jens Axboe