linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] btrfs: turn btrfs_destroy_all_ordered

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Date:   Tue, 2 Mar 2021 13:07:08 +0100
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     Yang Li <yang.lee@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     clm@...com, josef@...icpanda.com, dsterba@...e.com,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: turn btrfs_destroy_all_ordered_extents() into
 void functions

On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 04:57:56PM +0800, Yang Li wrote:
> These functions always return '0' and no callers use the return
> value. So make it a void function.

The reasoning needs to go the other way around: you can make a function
return void iff all callees also return void and don't do BUG_ON instead
of proper error handling.

Which in this case does not hold, because the function itself still does
BUG_ON.

> It fixes the following warning detected by coccinelle:
> ./fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:4522:5-8: Unneeded variable: "ret". Return "0" on
> line 4530

Yeah tools can identify the simple cases but fixing that properly needs
to extend to the whole callgraph and understand all the contexts where
local data are undone and errors propagated up the callchanin.