Re: [PATCH v5 08/10] PM: EM: Implement em_notify_pd_deleted()

From: kernel test robot

Date: Wed Oct 15 2025 - 00:17:19 EST


Hi Changwoo,

kernel test robot noticed the following build warnings:

[auto build test WARNING on amd-pstate/linux-next]
[also build test WARNING on amd-pstate/bleeding-edge linus/master v6.18-rc1 next-20251014]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_information]

url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Changwoo-Min/PM-EM-Assign-a-unique-ID-when-creating-a-performance-domain/20251014-082420
base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/superm1/linux.git linux-next
patch link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251014001055.772422-9-changwoo%40igalia.com
patch subject: [PATCH v5 08/10] PM: EM: Implement em_notify_pd_deleted()
config: i386-buildonly-randconfig-004-20251015 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20251015/202510151223.THlBK6QR-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: clang version 20.1.8 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 87f0227cb60147a26a1eeb4fb06e3b505e9c7261)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20251015/202510151223.THlBK6QR-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202510151223.THlBK6QR-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> kernel/power/em_netlink.c:228:6: warning: variable 'ret' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
228 | int ret = -EMSGSIZE;
| ^
1 warning generated.


vim +/ret +228 kernel/power/em_netlink.c

224
225 void em_notify_pd_deleted(const struct em_perf_domain *pd)
226 {
227 struct sk_buff *msg;
> 228 int ret = -EMSGSIZE;
229 void *hdr;
230 int msg_sz;
231
232 if (!genl_has_listeners(&em_nl_family, &init_net, EM_NLGRP_EVENT))
233 return;
234
235 msg_sz = __em_notify_pd_deleted_size(pd);
236
237 msg = genlmsg_new(msg_sz, GFP_KERNEL);
238 if (!msg)
239 return;
240
241 hdr = genlmsg_put(msg, 0, 0, &em_nl_family, 0, EM_CMD_PD_DELETED);
242 if (!hdr)
243 goto out_free_msg;
244
245 if (nla_put_u32(msg, EM_A_PD_TABLE_PD_ID, pd->id)) {
246 ret = -EMSGSIZE;
247 goto out_free_msg;
248 }
249
250 genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
251
252 genlmsg_multicast(&em_nl_family, msg, 0, EM_NLGRP_EVENT, GFP_KERNEL);
253
254 return;
255
256 out_free_msg:
257 nlmsg_free(msg);
258 return;
259 }
260

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