linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH REPOST] f2fs: file: drop useless initializer in expand_inode

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Message-ID: <5296767d-1dfa-7d86-3f47-ace8765ebc2d@omp.ru>
Date:   Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:55:20 +0300
From:   Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>
To:     Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>, Yangtao Li <frank.li@...o.com>
CC:     <linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH REPOST] f2fs: file: drop useless initializer in
 expand_inode_data()

On 12/21/22 3:34 PM, Chao Yu wrote:

[...]
>>> In expand_inode_data(), the 'new_size' local variable is initialized to
>>> the result of i_size_read(), however this value isn't ever used,  so we
>>> can drop this initializer...
>>>
>>> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static
>>> analysis tool.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> This patch is against the 'dev' branch of Jaegeuk Kim's F2FS repo...
>>> Reposting with ISP RAS mailing lists CC'ed now...
>>
>> Why do you repeatedly send a patch that cannot be applied, and this does not have
> 
> The format is weired, but still I can apply this into my git repo...

   This is just the quilt's format. I normally use quilt for development
and then import my patch seies to git in order to prepare it for posting.
If I post a single patch, I just skip the git step and post with my MTA...

[...]

>> Thx,
>> Yangtao

MBR, Sergey