netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] rxrpc: Remove set but not used variable 'ioc'

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Date:   Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:38:08 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rxrpc: Remove set but not used variable 'ioc'

On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 11:13:16AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com> wrote:
> 
> > net/rxrpc/output.c: In function 'rxrpc_reject_packets':
> > net/rxrpc/output.c:527:11: warning:
> >  variable 'ioc' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
> > 
> > It never used since introduction in
> 
> I wonder why my compiler doesn't show this warning.
> 
> Anyway, NAK: just removing the variable is the wrong fix - you need to look at
> the code more closely.  The actual fix is to pass it to kernel_sendmsg()
> instead of 2.
> 
> But thanks anyway!  Do you want to respin your patch?
> 
> > commit ece64fec164f ("rxrpc: Emit BUSY packets when supposed to rather than ABORTs")
> 
> Btw, this should be a 'Fixes: <commit> ("subject")' line and the patch needs
> to go to net, not net-next.

I told him to do that because it wasn't a bugfix...  Probably just Fixes
is the right thing to use though.

regards,
dan carpenter