Re: [PATCH] HID: hid-sensor-custom: remove useless variable

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:06:35 -0700
Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 2021-04-11 at 14:56 +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:19:12 -0700
> > Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Fri, 2021-04-09 at 15:15 +0800, Jiapeng Chong wrote:  
> > > > Fix the following gcc warning:
> > > > 
> > > > drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c:400:7: warning: variable ‘ret’
> > > > set
> > > > but
> > > > not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable].
> > > > 
> > > > Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>    
> > > Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  
> > 
> > Perhaps better to return ret if it is non zero?
> > I can't immediately figure out if there is a reason we know that
> > can't
> > happen.  
> Only time it can fail when there is no report descriptor or the field
> index is >= report->maxfield.
> But since the attribute is registered from the report descriptor and
> index, this can't happen.
> But we can enhance sensor_hub_set_feature() to fail when
>  hid_set_field() fails. There is one case where field->logical_minimum
> < 0  and value is out of range.

I'll go with what you think.  Apply as is, or handle the
return value because we might at some later date return an error that
can actually happen from here?

Jonathan

> 
> Thanks,
> Srinivas
> 
> 
> > 
> > Jonathan
> >   
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c | 5 ++---
> > > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c b/drivers/hid/hid-
> > > > sensor-custom.c
> > > > index 2628bc5..e430673 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c
> > > > @@ -397,15 +397,14 @@ static ssize_t store_value(struct device
> > > > *dev,
> > > > struct device_attribute *attr,
> > > >  
> > > >  	if (!strncmp(name, "value", strlen("value"))) {
> > > >  		u32 report_id;
> > > > -		int ret;
> > > >  
> > > >  		if (kstrtoint(buf, 0, &value) != 0)
> > > >  			return -EINVAL;
> > > >  
> > > >  		report_id = sensor_inst->fields[field_index].attribute.
> > > >  								report_
> > > > id;
> > > > -		ret = sensor_hub_set_feature(sensor_inst->hsdev,
> > > > report_id,
> > > > -					     index, sizeof(value),
> > > > &value);
> > > > +		sensor_hub_set_feature(sensor_inst->hsdev, report_id,
> > > > index,
> > > > +				       sizeof(value), &value);
> > > >  	} else
> > > >  		return -EINVAL;
> > > >      
>