Re: [PATCH -next v2 1/9] blk-iocost: cleanup ioc_qos_write() and ioc_cost_model_write()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Nov 30 2022 - 10:56:09 EST


On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 07:54:59AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > + ret = nbytes;
>
> ret is an int which bytes is a size_t. So we at least need a ssize_t
> instead for ret, and even that assumes nbytes never overflows a ssize_t.

A better way might be to initialize ret to 0 at declaration time and
then do

if (ret)
return ret;
return nbytes;