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From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Cc: dsterba@suse.com, gustavoars@kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] affs: Remove unused struct members in affs_root_head
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:08:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202408261307.F7D2AD650@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240826142735.64490-2-thorsten.blum@toblux.com>

On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 04:27:36PM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> Only ptype is actually used. Remove the other struct members.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
> ---
>  fs/affs/amigaffs.h | 6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/affs/amigaffs.h b/fs/affs/amigaffs.h
> index 1b973a669d23..9b40ae618852 100644
> --- a/fs/affs/amigaffs.h
> +++ b/fs/affs/amigaffs.h
> @@ -49,12 +49,6 @@ struct affs_short_date {
>  
>  struct affs_root_head {
>  	__be32 ptype;
> -	__be32 spare1;
> -	__be32 spare2;
> -	__be32 hash_size;
> -	__be32 spare3;
> -	__be32 checksum;
> -	__be32 hashtable[1];
>  };

This is removing documentation, in a way. Since I suspect you were
looking at this due to hashtable, maybe just change that to [] and note
that it (and the other fields) aren't used, but they're kept around to
help document the format.

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-26 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-26 14:27 [PATCH] affs: Remove unused struct members in affs_root_head Thorsten Blum
2024-08-26 20:08 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2024-08-26 20:48   ` Thorsten Blum
2024-08-27 12:51     ` Thorsten Blum

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