Re: [PATCH] UBIFS: Remove some dead code

[Richard Weinberger]

On 01.11.2016 07:45, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> 'ubifs_fast_find_freeable()' can not return an error pointer, so this test
> can be removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/ubifs/gc.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ubifs/gc.c b/fs/ubifs/gc.c
> index e845c64b6ce1..7b35e3d6cde7 100644
> --- a/fs/ubifs/gc.c
> +++ b/fs/ubifs/gc.c
> @@ -846,10 +846,6 @@ int ubifs_gc_start_commit(struct ubifs_info *c)
>  	 */
>  	while (1) {
>  		lp = ubifs_fast_find_freeable(c);
> -		if (IS_ERR(lp)) {
> -			err = PTR_ERR(lp);
> -			goto out;
> -		}

Good catch, how did you find this?
If you have a tool/script I'd like to use it too.

Thanks,
//richard