From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>,
Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>,
gfs2@lists.linux.dev, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: dlm: clean up a type in waiters_read()
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:27:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c8b6843c-c87a-4330-b6f4-e556117a8026@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK-6q+heOWNY8CY8dgotxzEeFC_-huHnnO2pgH8kJsJSGryOtw@mail.gmail.com>
>>> This doesn't affect runtime but "rv" stores error codes and so
>>> declare it as ssize_t instead of size_t.
>>
>> Can a similar adjustment matter also for the local variable “ret”?
>
> What do you mean by 'matter'? It's declared as cleanup.
Can the usage of a data type like “int” become more desirable for “ret”
according to the affected function implementation?
Regards,
Markus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-13 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-01 6:44 [PATCH] " Dan Carpenter
2026-10-01 23:11 ` Alexander Aring
2026-10-11 12:11 ` Markus Elfring
2026-10-13 13:07 ` Alexander Aring
2026-10-13 15:27 ` Markus Elfring [this message]
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