linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 4/4] afs: Remove redundant assignment to ret

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Date:   Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:28:10 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     Abaci Robot <abaci@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>, dhowells@...hat.com,
        Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/4] afs: Remove redundant assignment to ret

From: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>

Variable ret is set to -ENOENT and -ENOMEM but this value is never
read as it is overwritten or not used later on, hence it is a
redundant assignment and can be removed.

Cleans up the following clang-analyzer warning:

fs/afs/dir.c:2014:4: warning: Value stored to 'ret' is never read
[clang-analyzer-deadcode.DeadStores].

fs/afs/dir.c:659:2: warning: Value stored to 'ret' is never read
[clang-analyzer-deadcode.DeadStores].

[DH made the following modifications:

 - In afs_rename(), -ENOMEM should be placed in op->error instead of ret,
   rather than the assignment being removed entirely.  afs_put_operation()
   will pick it up from there and return it.

 - If afs_sillyrename() fails, its error code should be placed in op->error
   rather than in ret also.
]

Fixes: e49c7b2f6de7 ("afs: Build an abstraction around an "operation" concept")
Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@...ux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>
cc: linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1619691492-83866-1-git-send-email-jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162609465444.3133237.7562832521724298900.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
---

 fs/afs/dir.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c
index 78719f2f567e..ac829e63c570 100644
--- a/fs/afs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/afs/dir.c
@@ -656,7 +656,6 @@ static int afs_do_lookup_one(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	ret = -ENOENT;
 	if (!cookie.found) {
 		_leave(" = -ENOENT [not found]");
 		return -ENOENT;
@@ -2020,17 +2019,20 @@ static int afs_rename(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct inode *old_dir,
 
 		if (d_count(new_dentry) > 2) {
 			/* copy the target dentry's name */
-			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			op->rename.tmp = d_alloc(new_dentry->d_parent,
 						 &new_dentry->d_name);
-			if (!op->rename.tmp)
+			if (!op->rename.tmp) {
+				op->error = -ENOMEM;
 				goto error;
+			}
 
 			ret = afs_sillyrename(new_dvnode,
 					      AFS_FS_I(d_inode(new_dentry)),
 					      new_dentry, op->key);
-			if (ret)
+			if (ret) {
+				op->error = ret;
 				goto error;
+			}
 
 			op->dentry_2 = op->rename.tmp;
 			op->rename.rehash = NULL;