Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 2/2] btrfs: fix warning on PTR_ERR() against NULL device at btrfs_control_ioctl()

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Dec 02 2024 - 07:13:54 EST


Hi!

> From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit 2342d6595b608eec94187a17dc112dd4c2a812fa ]
>
> Smatch complains about calling PTR_ERR() against a NULL pointer:
>
> fs/btrfs/super.c:2272 btrfs_control_ioctl() warn: passing zero to 'PTR_ERR'
>
> Fix this by calling PTR_ERR() against the device pointer only if it
> contains an error.

This patch was wrongly ported to 4.19. It is not needed there. Same
test is already performed 2 lines above.

Please drop.

BR,
Pavel

> +++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
> @@ -2283,7 +2283,10 @@ static long btrfs_control_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
> &btrfs_root_fs_type);
> if (IS_ERR(device)) {
> mutex_unlock(&uuid_mutex);
> - ret = PTR_ERR(device);
> + if (IS_ERR(device))
> + ret = PTR_ERR(device);
> + else
> + ret = 0;
> break;
> }
> ret = !(device->fs_devices->num_devices ==

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