Re: [patch] sunrpc: add missing return statement

[Trond Myklebust]

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 13:59 +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: 
> f300bab "nfsd41: sunrpc: add new xprt class for nfsv4.1 backchannel"
> introduced an error case branch that lacks an actual `return' keyword
> before the return value.  Add it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jw@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexandros Batsakis <batsakis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
> @@ -2444,7 +2444,7 @@ static struct rpc_xprt *xs_setup_bc_tcp(
>  	struct svc_sock *bc_sock;
>  
>  	if (!args->bc_xprt)
> -		ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>  
>  	xprt = xs_setup_xprt(args, xprt_tcp_slot_table_entries);
>  	if (IS_ERR(xprt))

No. It should either be a BUG_ON(), or else be removed entirely.
Returning an error value for something that is clearly a programming bug
is not a particularly useful exercise...

Cheers
  Trond


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