linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] bcachefs: remove redundant variable tmp

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 09:01:05 -0500
From: Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>
To: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>,
	linux-bcachefs@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] bcachefs: remove redundant variable tmp

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 11:07:23AM +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
> The variable tmp is being assigned a value but it isn't being
> read afterwards. The assignment is redundant and so tmp can be
> removed.
> 

I assume this intends to refer to s/tmp/ret/ ...

> Cleans up clang scan build warning:
> warning: Although the value stored to 'ret' is used in the enclosing
> expression, the value is never actually read from 'ret'
> [deadcode.DeadStores]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
> ---
>  fs/bcachefs/rebalance.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/bcachefs/rebalance.c b/fs/bcachefs/rebalance.c
> index 95f46cb3b5bd..827316a27431 100644
> --- a/fs/bcachefs/rebalance.c
> +++ b/fs/bcachefs/rebalance.c
> @@ -385,7 +385,6 @@ static int bch2_rebalance_thread(void *arg)
>  	struct bch_fs *c = arg;
>  	struct bch_fs_rebalance *r = &c->rebalance;
>  	struct moving_context ctxt;
> -	int ret;
>  
>  	set_freezable();
>  
> @@ -393,8 +392,7 @@ static int bch2_rebalance_thread(void *arg)
>  			      writepoint_ptr(&c->rebalance_write_point),
>  			      true);
>  
> -	while (!kthread_should_stop() &&
> -	       !(ret = do_rebalance(&ctxt)))
> +	while (!kthread_should_stop() && !do_rebalance(&ctxt))

Part of me wonders if this was intended to return ret, as that appears
to bubble back through kthread_stop(). That said, we don't check for
error there either (i.e. bch2_rebalance_stop()), so this seems
reasonable enough to me to address the warning:

Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>

>  		;
>  
>  	bch2_moving_ctxt_exit(&ctxt);
> -- 
> 2.39.2
>