linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] bcachefs: remove redundant assignment to variable ret

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:08:28 +0000
From: "Colin King (gmail)" <colin.i.king@...il.com>
To: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>, linux-bcachefs@...r.kernel.org,
 kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] bcachefs: remove redundant assignment to variable
 ret

On 22/02/2024 00:04, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 11:52:03AM +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
>> Variable ret is being assigned a value that is never read, it is
>> being re-assigned a couple of statements later on. The assignment
>> is redundant and can be removed.
>>
>> Cleans up clang scan build warning:
>> fs/bcachefs/super-io.c:806:2: warning: Value stored to 'ret' is
>> never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
> 
> I'll take this, but - entirely too much of the traffic on this list is
> getting taken up by static analyzer bullshit, we need to cut down on
> this

I'll back off then.

Colin