Re: [PATCH] fadvise: avoid EINVAL if user input is valid

[Pádraig Brady]

On 02/25/2012 02:27 AM, Eric Wong wrote:
> The kernel is not required to act on fadvise, so fail silently
> and ignore advice as long as it has a valid descriptor and
> parameters.
> 

> @@ -106,12 +105,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE(fadvise64_64)(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int advice)
>  		nrpages = end_index - start_index + 1;
>  		if (!nrpages)
>  			nrpages = ~0UL;
> -		
> -		ret = force_page_cache_readahead(mapping, file,
> -				start_index,
> -				nrpages);
> -		if (ret > 0)
> -			ret = 0;
> +
> +		force_page_cache_readahead(mapping, file, start_index, nrpages);
>  		break;

This whole patch makes sense to me.
The above chunk might cause confusion in future,
if people wonder for a moment why the return is ignored.
Should you use cast with (void) like this to be explicit?

(void) force_page_cache_readahead(...);

cheers,
Pádraig.
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