linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ubifs: Remove unreachable code

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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 11:21:46 +0800
From: Kunwu Chan <chentao@...inos.cn>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
Cc: richard@....at, Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com, kunwu.chan@...mail.com,
 linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ubifs: Remove unreachable code



On 2024/1/5 23:55, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 3:33 PM Kunwu Chan <chentao@...inos.cn> wrote:
>>
>> Because there is no break statement in the dead loop above,it is
>> impossible to execute the 'err=0' statement.Delete the code that
>> will never execute and initialize 'err' at the start of the function.
>>
>> Fixes: 6fb324a4b0c3 ("UBIFS: allocate ltab checking buffer on demand")
>> Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@...inos.cn>
>> ---
>>   fs/ubifs/lpt_commit.c | 5 ++---
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/ubifs/lpt_commit.c b/fs/ubifs/lpt_commit.c
>> index c4d079328b92..d4751628fe70 100644
>> --- a/fs/ubifs/lpt_commit.c
>> +++ b/fs/ubifs/lpt_commit.c
>> @@ -1589,8 +1589,8 @@ static int dbg_is_node_dirty(struct ubifs_info *c, int node_type, int lnum,
>>    */
>>   static int dbg_check_ltab_lnum(struct ubifs_info *c, int lnum)
>>   {
>> -       int err, len = c->leb_size, dirty = 0, node_type, node_num, node_len;
>> -       int ret;
>> +       int len = c->leb_size, dirty = 0, node_type, node_num, node_len;
>> +       int ret, err = 0;
>>          void *buf, *p;
> 
> Now it is still dead code.
> A few lines later err will be used for the result of ubifs_leb_read().
> So you can remove the initialization of err completely.

Thanks, I will modify in v2 patch.

> 
>>          if (!dbg_is_chk_lprops(c))
>> @@ -1646,7 +1646,6 @@ static int dbg_check_ltab_lnum(struct ubifs_info *c, int lnum)
>>                  len -= node_len;
>>          }
>>
>> -       err = 0;
>>   out:
>>          vfree(buf);
>>          return err;
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>>
> 
>