[PATCH 2/2] sunrpc: eliminate return pointer in svc_tcp_sendmsg()

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Mon Aug 11 2025 - 10:42:02 EST


Return a positive value if something was sent, or a negative error code.
Eliminate the "err" variable in the only caller as well.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sunrpc/svcsock.c | 21 ++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
index 22f59289fdcf17137fcac59e13975281ecf3e380..2b531d6d5edd92b2c2fe3b774f67e5ecaa9fd57f 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
@@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@ static int svc_tcp_recvfrom(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
* that the pages backing @xdr are unchanging.
*/
static int svc_tcp_sendmsg(struct svc_sock *svsk, struct svc_rqst *rqstp,
- rpc_fraghdr marker, int *sentp)
+ rpc_fraghdr marker)
{
struct msghdr msg = {
.msg_flags = MSG_SPLICE_PAGES,
@@ -1206,8 +1206,6 @@ static int svc_tcp_sendmsg(struct svc_sock *svsk, struct svc_rqst *rqstp,
void *buf;
int ret;

- *sentp = 0;
-
/* The stream record marker is copied into a temporary page
* fragment buffer so that it can be included in rq_bvec.
*/
@@ -1225,10 +1223,7 @@ static int svc_tcp_sendmsg(struct svc_sock *svsk, struct svc_rqst *rqstp,
1 + count, sizeof(marker) + rqstp->rq_res.len);
ret = sock_sendmsg(svsk->sk_sock, &msg);
page_frag_free(buf);
- if (ret < 0)
- return ret;
- *sentp += ret;
- return 0;
+ return ret;
}

/**
@@ -1247,7 +1242,7 @@ static int svc_tcp_sendto(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
struct xdr_buf *xdr = &rqstp->rq_res;
rpc_fraghdr marker = cpu_to_be32(RPC_LAST_STREAM_FRAGMENT |
(u32)xdr->len);
- int sent, err;
+ int sent;

svc_tcp_release_ctxt(xprt, rqstp->rq_xprt_ctxt);
rqstp->rq_xprt_ctxt = NULL;
@@ -1255,9 +1250,9 @@ static int svc_tcp_sendto(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
mutex_lock(&xprt->xpt_mutex);
if (svc_xprt_is_dead(xprt))
goto out_notconn;
- err = svc_tcp_sendmsg(svsk, rqstp, marker, &sent);
- trace_svcsock_tcp_send(xprt, err < 0 ? (long)err : sent);
- if (err < 0 || sent != (xdr->len + sizeof(marker)))
+ sent = svc_tcp_sendmsg(svsk, rqstp, marker);
+ trace_svcsock_tcp_send(xprt, sent);
+ if (sent < 0 || sent != (xdr->len + sizeof(marker)))
goto out_close;
mutex_unlock(&xprt->xpt_mutex);
return sent;
@@ -1268,8 +1263,8 @@ static int svc_tcp_sendto(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
out_close:
pr_notice("rpc-srv/tcp: %s: %s %d when sending %zu bytes - shutting down socket\n",
xprt->xpt_server->sv_name,
- (err < 0) ? "got error" : "sent",
- (err < 0) ? err : sent, xdr->len + sizeof(marker));
+ (sent < 0) ? "got error" : "sent",
+ sent, xdr->len + sizeof(marker));
svc_xprt_deferred_close(xprt);
mutex_unlock(&xprt->xpt_mutex);
return -EAGAIN;

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2.50.1