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From: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Amer Al Shanawany <amer.shanawany@gmail.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Swarup Laxman Kotiaklapudi <swarupkotikalapudi@gmail.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@gmail.com>,
	kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: proc: remove unreached code and fix build warning
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:04:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0556ee55-6bdf-4392-8933-03539768f671@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb9b2d6e-91eb-4fdc-b352-b3d0c290da2f@p183>

On 6/7/24 09:25, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 08:25:31PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 17:24:47 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 02:42:20PM +0200, Amer Al Shanawany wrote:
>>>> fix the following warning:
>>>> proc-empty-vm.c:385:17: warning: ignoring return value of ‘write’
>>>
>>>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/proc/proc-empty-vm.c
>>>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/proc/proc-empty-vm.c
>>>> @@ -381,9 +381,6 @@ static int test_proc_pid_statm(pid_t pid)
>>>
>>>> -	if (0) {
>>>> -		write(1, buf, rv);
>>>> -	}
>>>
>>> no thanks
>>
>> Why not?
>>
>> Why does that code exist anyway?  It at least needs a comment.
> 
> OK, whatever.
> 
> If test fails, it better record buggy output somewhere (to coredump or to terminal).

+1 on reporting results - the best way to do this is to add a meaningful message
for users to understand what went wrong.

Please suggest how you would like this warning addressed and report the error.

thanks,
-- Shuah

      reply	other threads:[~2024-06-11 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <202404010211.ygidvMwa-lkp@intel.com>
2024-06-03 12:42 ` [PATCH] selftests: proc: remove unreached code and fix build warning Amer Al Shanawany
2024-06-03 14:24   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2024-06-05  3:25     ` Andrew Morton
2024-06-07 15:25       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2024-06-11 15:04         ` Shuah Khan [this message]

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