linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] btrfs: Remove dead code

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 1 Feb 2022 15:05:47 +0100
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@...labora.com>
Cc:     Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, Qu Wenruo <wqu@...e.com>,
        kernel@...labora.com, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: Remove dead code

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 04:50:27PM +0500, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> Local variable stop_loop is assigned only once, to a constant value 0,
> making it effectively constant through out its scope. This constant
> variable is guarding deadcode. The two if conditions can never be true.
> Remove the variable and make the logic simple.
> 
> Fixes: 585f784357d8 ("btrfs: use scrub_simple_mirror() to handle RAID56 data stripe scrub")

Thanks, this patch is still only in for-next so the change can be folded
into it.