Re: [PATCH] fs/ceph/export: remove unused variable 'err'

[Jeff Layton]

On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 00:21 +0800, Qiujun Huang wrote:
> fix gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning:
> fs/ceph/export.c: In function â__get_parentâ:
> fs/ceph/export.c:294:6: warning: variable âerrâ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>   int err;
> 
> and needn't use the return value of ceph_mdsc_create_request.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/ceph/export.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ceph/export.c b/fs/ceph/export.c
> index b6bfa94..b7bb41c 100644
> --- a/fs/ceph/export.c
> +++ b/fs/ceph/export.c
> @@ -291,7 +291,6 @@ static struct dentry *__get_parent(struct super_block *sb,
>  	struct ceph_mds_request *req;
>  	struct inode *inode;
>  	int mask;
> -	int err;
>  
>  	req = ceph_mdsc_create_request(mdsc, CEPH_MDS_OP_LOOKUPPARENT,
>  				       USE_ANY_MDS);
> @@ -314,7 +313,7 @@ static struct dentry *__get_parent(struct super_block *sb,
>  	req->r_args.getattr.mask = cpu_to_le32(mask);
>  
>  	req->r_num_caps = 1;
> -	err = ceph_mdsc_do_request(mdsc, NULL, req);
> +	ceph_mdsc_do_request(mdsc, NULL, req);
>  	inode = req->r_target_inode;
>  	if (inode)
>  		ihold(inode);

I think we probably ought to just return ERR_PTR(err) in that case
instead of discarding it. It looks like today we'll end up returning
ENOENT when that errors out which doesn't seem right when there is a
different issue.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>