Re: [PATCH v10 3/3] scsi: sd: make sd_revalidate_disk() return void

[Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>]

On 8/26/25 03:39, Abinash Singh wrote:
> The sd_revalidate_disk() function currently returns 0 for
> both success and memory allocation failure.Since none of its
> callers use the return value, this return code is both unnecessary
> and potentially misleading.
> 
> Change the return type of sd_revalidate_disk() from int to void
> and remove all return value handling. This makes the function
> semantics clearer and avoids confusion about unused return codes.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Abinash Singh <abinashsinghlalotra@gmail.com>

[...]

>  	lim = kmalloc(sizeof(*lim), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!lim)
> -		goto out;
> +		return;
>  
>  	buffer = kmalloc(SD_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!buffer)
> @@ -3823,7 +3823,6 @@ static int sd_revalidate_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
>  	kfree(buffer);
>  	kfree(lim);
>  

Nit: please delete the blank line above too.

> -	return err;
>  }
>  
>  /**


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research