Re: [PATCH] mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value

[xiujianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>]

Hi,

在 2022/9/20 21:22, David Hildenbrand 写道:
> On 20.09.22 14:35, xiujianfeng wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 在 2022/9/20 20:10, David Hildenbrand 写道:
>>> On 20.09.22 03:22, Xiu Jianfeng wrote:
>>>> The return value @ret is always 0, so remove it and return 0 directly.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    mm/secretmem.c | 6 ++----
>>>>    1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/mm/secretmem.c b/mm/secretmem.c
>>>> index 6a44efb673b2..04c3ac9448a1 100644
>>>> --- a/mm/secretmem.c
>>>> +++ b/mm/secretmem.c
>>>> @@ -278,10 +278,8 @@ static struct file_system_type secretmem_fs = {
>>>>    static int __init secretmem_init(void)
>>>>    {
>>>> -    int ret = 0;
>>>> -
>>>>        if (!secretmem_enable)
>>>> -        return ret;
>>>> +        return 0;
>>>>        secretmem_mnt = kern_mount(&secretmem_fs);
>>>>        if (IS_ERR(secretmem_mnt))
>>>
>>> On top of which tree is that?
>>>
>>> 6.0-rc6 has here:
>>>
>>> if (IS_ERR(secretmem_mnt))
>>>       ret = PTR_ERR(secretmem_mnt);
>>>
>> Sorry, it's on linux-next tree, I should have used [PATCH -next]:)
>>
> 
> Maybe this change should be squashed into the patch from Binyi directly:
> 

Looks good to me, thanks.

> 
> commit 4eb5bbde3ccb710d3b85bfb13466612e56393369 (mm/mm-hotfixes-stable)
> Author: Binyi Han <dantengknight@gmail.com>
> Date:   Sun Sep 4 00:46:47 2022 -0700
> 
>     mm: fix dereferencing possible ERR_PTR
>     Smatch checker complains that 'secretmem_mnt' dereferencing possible
>     ERR_PTR().  Let the function return if 'secretmem_mnt' is ERR_PTR, to
>     avoid deferencing it.
>     Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220904074647.GA64291@cloud-MacBookPro
>     Fixes: 1507f51255c9f ("mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to 
> create "secret" memory areas")
>     Signed-off-by: Binyi Han <dantengknight@gmail.com>
>     Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foudation.org>
>     Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
>     Cc: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>
>     Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
>     Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
>     Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> 
>