Re: [PATCH] mm/folio-compat: Drop superfluous return statements in void compat wrappers

From: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)

Date: Fri Jul 17 2026 - 04:43:04 EST


On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 03:20:54PM +0800, Hongfu Li wrote:
> From: Hongfu Li <lihongfu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> unlock_page(), end_page_writeback() and wait_on_page_writeback()
> are void wrappers forwarding to folio-based functions which also
> return void. Explicit return statements here are syntactically valid
> but unnecessary, and inconsistent with other nearby compat helpers
> such as mark_page_accessed() and set_page_writeback().
>
> Drop all these superfluous return keywords.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hongfu Li <lihongfu@xxxxxxxxxx>

LGTM so:

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>

I would ask that you maybe slow down on the flow of patches lately :) review is
pretty overwhelmed atm.

> ---
> mm/folio-compat.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/folio-compat.c b/mm/folio-compat.c
> index a02179a0bded..8eb3e7fe4c91 100644
> --- a/mm/folio-compat.c
> +++ b/mm/folio-compat.c
> @@ -13,19 +13,19 @@
>
> void unlock_page(struct page *page)
> {
> - return folio_unlock(page_folio(page));
> + folio_unlock(page_folio(page));
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(unlock_page);
>
> void end_page_writeback(struct page *page)
> {
> - return folio_end_writeback(page_folio(page));
> + folio_end_writeback(page_folio(page));
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(end_page_writeback);
>
> void wait_on_page_writeback(struct page *page)
> {
> - return folio_wait_writeback(page_folio(page));
> + folio_wait_writeback(page_folio(page));
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wait_on_page_writeback);
>
> --
> 2.54.0
>

Thanks, Lorenzo