netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: hns3: clean up a return in hclge_tm_bp

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Date:   Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:52:36 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>
Cc:     Yisen Zhuang <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>,
        Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@...wei.com>,
        Yonglong Liu <liuyonglong@...wei.com>,
        Yufeng Mo <moyufeng@...wei.com>,
        Pankaj Bharadiya <pankaj.laxminarayan.bharadiya@...el.com>,
        Guangbin Huang <huangguangbin2@...wei.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: hns3: clean up a return in hclge_tm_bp_setup()

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:18:16AM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> On 2020/10/23 19:22, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > Smatch complains that "ret" might be uninitialized if we don't enter
> > the loop.  We do always enter the loop so it's a false positive, but
> > it's cleaner to just return a literal zero and that silences the
> > warning as well.
> 
> Thanks for the clean up. Minor comment below:
> Perhap it makes sense to limit ret scope within the for loop after
> returning zero.
> 

It's not really normal to limit ret scope...  I think it's better to
leave it as-is.

regards,
dan carpenter