Re: [PATCH v1] perf intel-pt: cleanup unneeded return variable in intel_pt_text_poke()

[Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>]

On 21/11/24 12:00, guanjing wrote:
> Removed Unneeded variable: "ret"
> 
> Fixes: 0dd5041c9a0e ("perf addr_location: Add init/exit/copy functions")

A Fixes tag is not for patches that don't fix some functionality.

> Signed-off-by: guanjing <guanjing@cmss.chinamobile.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
> index 30be6dfe09eb..6c0234acc669 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
> @@ -3402,7 +3402,6 @@ static int intel_pt_text_poke(struct intel_pt *pt, union perf_event *event)
>  	struct machine *machine = pt->machine;
>  	struct intel_pt_cache_entry *e;
>  	u64 offset;
> -	int ret = 0;
>  
>  	addr_location__init(&al);
>  	if (!event->text_poke.new_len)
> @@ -3443,7 +3442,7 @@ static int intel_pt_text_poke(struct intel_pt *pt, union perf_event *event)
>  	}
>  out:
>  	addr_location__exit(&al);
> -	return ret;
> +	return 0;

Should just drop the return value entirely, since it is
always zero.

>  }
>  
>  static int intel_pt_process_event(struct perf_session *session,