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

From: Chao Yu
Date: Fri Aug 30 2019 - 02:26:03 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxx/
> Reported-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,