re: ext4: convert file system to meta_bg if needed during resizing
From: Colin Ian King
Date: Fri Feb 28 2020 - 19:39:39 EST
Hi,
static analysis with Coverity has found an issue in function
ext4_convert_meta_bg() with the following commit
commit 1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Sep 13 10:19:24 2012 -0400
ext4: convert file system to meta_bg if needed during resizing
The analysis is as follows:
1898
1899 errout:
1900 ret = ext4_journal_stop(handle);
1901 if (!err)
Unused value (UNUSED_VALUE)assigned_value: Assigning value from ret to
err here, but that stored value is not used.
1902 err = ret;
1903 return ret;
I'm not entirely sure why !err is being checked and then err is being
re-assigned and then is not used.
Colin