Re: [PATCH] mm: shmem: make shmem_init return void

[Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 7:44 PM Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> The return value of shmem_init is never used. So we can make it
> return void now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/shmem_fs.h | 2 +-
>  mm/shmem.c               | 9 ++++-----
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
> index ab51d3cd39bd..3e915cc550bc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static inline struct shmem_inode_info *SHMEM_I(struct inode *inode)
>   * Functions in mm/shmem.c called directly from elsewhere:
>   */
>  extern const struct fs_parameter_spec shmem_fs_parameters[];
> -extern int shmem_init(void);
> +extern void shmem_init(void);
>  extern int shmem_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc);
>  extern struct file *shmem_file_setup(const char *name,
>                                         loff_t size, unsigned long flags);
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index 529c9ad3e926..26e09a022087 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -3879,7 +3879,7 @@ static struct file_system_type shmem_fs_type = {
>         .fs_flags       = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
>  };
>
> -int __init shmem_init(void)
> +void __init shmem_init(void)
>  {
>         int error;
>
> @@ -3904,14 +3904,13 @@ int __init shmem_init(void)
>         else
>                 shmem_huge = SHMEM_HUGE_NEVER; /* just in case it was patched */
>  #endif
> -       return 0;
> +       return;
>
>  out1:
>         unregister_filesystem(&shmem_fs_type);
>  out2:
>         shmem_destroy_inodecache();
>         shm_mnt = ERR_PTR(error);
> -       return error;
>  }
>
>  #if defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) && defined(CONFIG_SYSFS)
> @@ -3989,14 +3988,14 @@ static struct file_system_type shmem_fs_type = {
>         .fs_flags       = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
>  };
>
> -int __init shmem_init(void)
> +void __init shmem_init(void)
>  {
>         BUG_ON(register_filesystem(&shmem_fs_type) != 0);
>
>         shm_mnt = kern_mount(&shmem_fs_type);
>         BUG_ON(IS_ERR(shm_mnt));
>
> -       return 0;
> +       return;

Weird. Using return at the end of a void function.