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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Su Hui <suhui@nfschina.com>
Cc: mark@fasheh.com, jlbec@evilplan.org, joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com,
	nathan@kernel.org, ndesaulniers@google.com, morbo@google.com,
	justinstitt@google.com, ocfs2-devel@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ocfs2: remove useless code in ocfs2_try_to_merge_extent
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:09:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240116120926.3bfa87253bf5af5090bd78bd@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240112042639.3948236-1-suhui@nfschina.com>

On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 12:26:40 +0800 Su Hui <suhui@nfschina.com> wrote:

> Clang static checker warning: Value stored to 'rec' is never read.
> Remove this useless code to silent this warning.
> 
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c
> @@ -3743,8 +3743,6 @@ static int ocfs2_try_to_merge_extent(handle_t *handle,
>  			goto out;
>  		}
>  
> -		rec = &el->l_recs[split_index];
> -
>  		/*
>  		 * Note that we don't pass split_rec here on purpose -
>  		 * we've merged it into the rec already.

Then:

		ret = ocfs2_merge_rec_left(path, handle, et, rec,
					   dealloc, split_index);

and ocfs2_merge_rec_left() almost immediately dereferences `rec'.

So this looks quite wrong to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-16 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-12  4:26 [PATCH] ocfs2: remove useless code in ocfs2_try_to_merge_extent Su Hui
2024-01-16 20:09 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2024-01-17  1:23   ` Su Hui

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