Re: [PATCH v4] ext2: Remove deprecated DAX support

From: kernel test robot

Date: Thu May 28 2026 - 00:17:00 EST


Hi Ashwin,

kernel test robot noticed the following build warnings:

[auto build test WARNING on jack-fs/for_next]
[also build test WARNING on linus/master v7.1-rc5 next-20260527]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_information]

url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Ashwin-Gundarapu/ext2-Remove-deprecated-DAX-support/20260524-233631
base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs.git for_next
patch link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/19e5aa07c9b.3a2e576d130187.5289857983023045470%40zohomail.in
patch subject: [PATCH v4] ext2: Remove deprecated DAX support
config: arm-randconfig-r071-20260528 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260528/202605281203.e91xvDyr-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: clang version 20.1.8 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 87f0227cb60147a26a1eeb4fb06e3b505e9c7261)
smatch: v0.5.0-9185-gbcc58b9c

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202605281203.e91xvDyr-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

smatch warnings:
fs/ext2/inode.c:1251 ext2_setsize() warn: inconsistent indenting

vim +1251 fs/ext2/inode.c

737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1236
2c27c65ed0696f0 Christoph Hellwig 2010-06-04 1237 static int ext2_setsize(struct inode *inode, loff_t newsize)
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1238 {
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1239 int error;
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1240
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1241 if (!(S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) ||
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1242 S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)))
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1243 return -EINVAL;
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1244 if (ext2_inode_is_fast_symlink(inode))
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1245 return -EINVAL;
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1246 if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode))
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1247 return -EPERM;
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1248
562c72aa57c36b1 Christoph Hellwig 2011-06-24 1249 inode_dio_wait(inode);
562c72aa57c36b1 Christoph Hellwig 2011-06-24 1250
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 @1251 error = block_truncate_page(inode->i_mapping,
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1252 newsize, ext2_get_block);
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1253 if (error)
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1254 return error;
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1255
70f3bad8c3154ba Jan Kara 2021-04-12 1256 filemap_invalidate_lock(inode->i_mapping);
2c27c65ed0696f0 Christoph Hellwig 2010-06-04 1257 truncate_setsize(inode, newsize);
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1258 __ext2_truncate_blocks(inode, newsize);
70f3bad8c3154ba Jan Kara 2021-04-12 1259 filemap_invalidate_unlock(inode->i_mapping);
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1260
5cdc59fce617a2e Jeff Layton 2023-10-04 1261 inode_set_mtime_to_ts(inode, inode_set_ctime_current(inode));
^1da177e4c3f415 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1262 if (inode_needs_sync(inode)) {
b0439bbc29f0201 Jan Kara 2026-03-26 1263 mmb_sync(&EXT2_I(inode)->i_metadata_bhs);
c37650161a53c01 Christoph Hellwig 2010-10-06 1264 sync_inode_metadata(inode, 1);
^1da177e4c3f415 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1265 } else {
^1da177e4c3f415 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1266 mark_inode_dirty(inode);
^1da177e4c3f415 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1267 }
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1268
737f2e93b9724a3 Nicholas Piggin 2010-05-27 1269 return 0;
^1da177e4c3f415 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1270 }
^1da177e4c3f415 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1271

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