Re: [PATCH] ext4: extents: Modify the return value variable type and initialize the assignment

From: Jan Kara
Date: Fri Feb 17 2023 - 09:40:32 EST


On Thu 09-02-23 03:34:43, Li kunyu wrote:
> Modify the return value variable to be consistent with the return value
> type of the function, and modify the initialization assignment. Under
> certain circumstances, the constant return value is not required.
>
> Signed-off-by: Li kunyu <kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hum, I don't think this really improves anything. All the functions seem to
return 0 or error code (and ext4_fallocate()) as well so the size of return
value does not really matter and we usually just use int in this case.

Honza

> ---
> fs/ext4/extents.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> index 9de1c9d1a13d..debeb2e7a162 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> @@ -4676,7 +4676,7 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
> struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
> loff_t new_size = 0;
> unsigned int max_blocks;
> - int ret = 0;
> + long ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> int flags;
> ext4_lblk_t lblk;
> unsigned int blkbits = inode->i_blkbits;
> @@ -4689,13 +4689,13 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
> */
> if (IS_ENCRYPTED(inode) &&
> (mode & (FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE | FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE)))
> - return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> + return ret;
>
> /* Return error if mode is not supported */
> if (mode & ~(FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE |
> FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE | FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE |
> FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE))
> - return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> + return ret;
>
> inode_lock(inode);
> ret = ext4_convert_inline_data(inode);
> --
> 2.18.2
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR