Re: [PATCH 1/5] staging: lustre: Remove unnecessary else after return

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Feb 27 2017 - 14:52:01 EST


On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 23:44 +0530, simran singhal wrote:
> This patch fixes the checkpatch warning that else is not generally
> useful after a break or return.

checkpatch doesn't actually warn for this style

if (foo)
return bar;
else
return baz;

> @@
> expression e2;
> statement s1;
> @@
> if(e2) { ... return ...; }
> -else
> s1
>
> Signed-off-by: simran singhal <singhalsimran0@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c | 3 +--
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ldlm/ldlm_pool.c | 3 +--
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c
> index fbbd8a5..02d49b7 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c
> @@ -1806,8 +1806,7 @@ ksocknal_close_matching_conns(struct lnet_process_id id, __u32 ipaddr)
>
> if (!count)
> return -ENOENT;
> - else
> - return 0;
> + return 0;
> }
>
> void
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ldlm/ldlm_pool.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ldlm/ldlm_pool.c
> index cf3fc57..ac32c82 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ldlm/ldlm_pool.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ldlm/ldlm_pool.c
> @@ -338,8 +338,7 @@ static int ldlm_cli_pool_shrink(struct ldlm_pool *pl,
>
> if (nr == 0)
> return (unused / 100) * sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure;
> - else
> - return ldlm_cancel_lru(ns, nr, LCF_ASYNC, LDLM_LRU_FLAG_SHRINK);
> + return ldlm_cancel_lru(ns, nr, LCF_ASYNC, LDLM_LRU_FLAG_SHRINK);
> }
>
> static const struct ldlm_pool_ops ldlm_cli_pool_ops = {