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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext4: convert file system to meta_bg if needed during resizing
Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 12:42:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200229174249.GB7378@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <633e75c4-acdc-1b88-ab47-4e922aac93d7@canonical.com>

On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 12:39:34AM +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
> 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@mit.edu>
> 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;

Line 1903 should be "return err".

Want to send a patch, or shall I just commit the fix?

     	       	      	       	      - Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-29 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-29  0:39 Colin Ian King
2020-02-29 17:42 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2020-02-29 17:52   ` Colin Ian King

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