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Date:   Tue, 11 Oct 2022 14:15:39 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Li Zetao <lizetao1@...wei.com>
Cc:     keescook@...omium.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
        bp@...en8.de, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, x86@...nel.org,
        hpa@...or.com, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
        tony.luck@...el.com, masahiroy@...nel.org, michael.roth@....com,
        sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com, nathan@...nel.org,
        brijesh.singh@....com, peterz@...radead.org,
        venu.busireddy@...cle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v4 1/2] x86/boot: Remove unused variables

On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 6:32 PM Li Zetao <lizetao1@...wei.com> wrote:
>
> Gcc report warning as follows:
>
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi.c: In function ‘efi_get_system_table’:
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi.c:62:23: warning: unused variable ‘et’
>   [-Wunused-variable]
>
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi.c: In function ‘efi_get_conf_table’:
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi.c:134:13: warning: unused variable
>   ‘ret’ [-Wunused-variable]
>
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c: In function ‘__efi_get_rsdp_addr’:
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c:27:13: warning: unused variable
>   ‘ret’ [-Wunused-variable]
>
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c: In function ‘efi_get_rsdp_addr’:
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c:55:22: warning: unused variable
>   ‘nr_tables’ [-Wunused-variable]
>
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/sev.c: In function ‘enforce_vmpl0’:
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/sev.c:256:13: error: unused variable ‘err’
>   [-Werror=unused-variable]
>
> Fix these warnings by removing unused variables.
>
> Fixes: 58f3e6b71f42 ("x86/compressed/acpi: Move EFI system table lookup to helper")
> Fixes: 61c14ceda840 ("x86/compressed/acpi: Move EFI config table lookup to helper")
> Fixes: dee602dd5d14 ("x86/compressed/acpi: Move EFI vendor table lookup to helper")
> Fixes: f9d230e893e8 ("x86/boot: Correct RSDP parsing with 32-bit EFI")
> Fixes: 81cc3df9a90e ("x86/sev: Check the VMPL level")
> Signed-off-by: Li Zetao <lizetao1@...wei.com>

Thanks for the patch!
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>

> ---
> v1 -> v2: Remove unused variables "et" in efi_get_system_table(), "ret" in
> efi_get_conf_table(), "ret" in __efi_get_rsdp_addr() and  "nr_tables" in
> efi_get_rsdp_addr()
> v2 -> v3: None
> v3 -> v4: Put this patch in front
>
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c | 2 --
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi.c  | 2 --
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/sev.c  | 1 -
>  3 files changed, 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c
> index 9caf89063e77..21febd9f21ab 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c
> @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ __efi_get_rsdp_addr(unsigned long cfg_tbl_pa, unsigned int cfg_tbl_len)
>  {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_EFI
>         unsigned long rsdp_addr;
> -       int ret;
>
>         /*
>          * Search EFI system tables for RSDP. Preferred is ACPI_20_TABLE_GUID to
> @@ -52,7 +51,6 @@ static acpi_physical_address efi_get_rsdp_addr(void)
>         unsigned long cfg_tbl_pa = 0;
>         unsigned int cfg_tbl_len;
>         unsigned long systab_pa;
> -       unsigned int nr_tables;
>         enum efi_type et;
>         int ret;
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi.c
> index 6edd034b0b30..6ffd22710ed2 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi.c
> @@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ unsigned long efi_get_system_table(struct boot_params *bp)
>  {
>         unsigned long sys_tbl_pa;
>         struct efi_info *ei;
> -       enum efi_type et;
>
>         /* Get systab from boot params. */
>         ei = &bp->efi_info;
> @@ -131,7 +130,6 @@ int efi_get_conf_table(struct boot_params *bp, unsigned long *cfg_tbl_pa,
>  {
>         unsigned long sys_tbl_pa;
>         enum efi_type et;
> -       int ret;
>
>         if (!cfg_tbl_pa || !cfg_tbl_len)
>                 return -EINVAL;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/sev.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/sev.c
> index c93930d5ccbd..b9451761a69a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/sev.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/sev.c
> @@ -253,7 +253,6 @@ void do_boot_stage2_vc(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long exit_code)
>  static void enforce_vmpl0(void)
>  {
>         u64 attrs;
> -       int err;
>
>         /*
>          * RMPADJUST modifies RMP permissions of a lesser-privileged (numerically
> --
> 2.34.1
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers