[PATCH v3 7/7] erofs: redundant assignment in __erofs_get_meta_page()

Chao Yu yuchao0 at huawei.com
Fri Aug 30 16:25:48 AEST 2019


On 2019/8/30 11:36, Gao Xiang wrote:
> As Joe Perches suggested [1],
>  		err = bio_add_page(bio, page, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
> -		if (unlikely(err != PAGE_SIZE)) {
> +		if (err != PAGE_SIZE) {
>  			err = -EFAULT;
>  			goto err_out;
>  		}
> 
> The initial assignment to err is odd as it's not
> actually an error value -E<FOO> but a int size
> from a unsigned int len.
> 
> Here the return is either 0 or PAGE_SIZE.
> 
> This would be more legible to me as:
> 
> 		if (bio_add_page(bio, page, PAGE_SIZE, 0) != PAGE_SIZE) {
> 			err = -EFAULT;
> 			goto err_out;
> 		}
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/74c4784319b40deabfbaea92468f7e3ef44f1c96.camel@perches.com/
> Reported-by: Joe Perches <joe at perches.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25 at huawei.com>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0 at huawei.com>

Thanks,


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