[PATCH] fs/ntfs3: Remove unnecessary condition checking from ntfs_file_read_iter

From: Kari Argillander
Date: Wed Aug 25 2021 - 14:25:43 EST


This check will be also performed in generic_file_read_iter() so we do
not want to check this two times in a row.

This was founded with Smatch
fs/ntfs3/file.c:803 ntfs_file_read_iter()
warn: unused return: count = iov_iter_count()

Signed-off-by: Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@xxxxxxxxx>
---
I cc Dan also because I am happy that I finally managed to install
Smack and straight away I found something with it. Thank you for
this great tool.

Next step is to integrate Smack to CI system. But will probanly take
a moment.
---
fs/ntfs3/file.c | 6 +-----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/file.c b/fs/ntfs3/file.c
index cb736701f2cc..5d41b84067ee 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/file.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/file.c
@@ -799,8 +799,6 @@ int ntfs3_setattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct dentry *dentry,

static ssize_t ntfs_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
{
- ssize_t err;
- size_t count = iov_iter_count(iter);
struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
struct ntfs_inode *ni = ntfs_i(inode);
@@ -829,9 +827,7 @@ static ssize_t ntfs_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}

- err = count ? generic_file_read_iter(iocb, iter) : 0;
-
- return err;
+ return generic_file_read_iter(iocb, iter);
}

/* returns array of locked pages */
--
2.30.2