linux-kernel - Re: dm vdo slab-depot: delete unnecessary check

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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 19:29:28 +0100
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>,
 Matthew Sakai <msakai@...hat.com>, "J. corwin Coburn"
 <corwin@...lbutnet.net>, Sweet Tea Dorminy <sweettea-kernel@...miny.me>,
 Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...nel.org>, dm-devel@...ts.linux.dev,
 kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dm vdo slab-depot: delete unnecessary check

> This is a duplicate check

Was this implementation detail detected with any known source code analysis tool?

> so it can't be true. …

I suggest to reconsider this information a bit more.
Would you usually expect the outcome “result == VDO_SUCCESS” from a call
of the function “uds_allocate”?

Regards,
Markus