On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 12:31:25AM +0000, Vinicius Tinti wrote:
> By enabling -Wunreachable-code-aggressive on Clang the following code
> paths are unreachable.
>
> This has been present since commit ac27a0ec112a ("[PATCH] ext4: initial
> copy of files from ext3") and fs/ext3 had it present at the beginning of
> git history. It has not been changed since.
>
> Clang warns:
>
> fs/ext4/namei.c:831:17: warning: code will never be executed
> [-Wunreachable-code]
> unsigned n = count - 1;
> ^~~~~
> fs/ext4/namei.c:830:7: note: silence by adding parentheses to mark code as
> explicitly dead
> if (0) { // linear search cross check
> ^
> /* DISABLES CODE */ ( )
>
> Signed-off-by: Vinicius Tinti <viniciustinti@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ext4/namei.c | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
> index cf652ba3e74d..46ae6a4e4be5 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
> @@ -827,20 +827,21 @@ dx_probe(struct ext4_filename *fname, struct inode *dir,
> p = m + 1;
> }
>
> - if (0) { // linear search cross check
> - unsigned n = count - 1;
> - at = entries;
> - while (n--)
> +#ifdef DX_DEBUG
> + // linear search cross check
> + unsigned n = count - 1;
You are going to introduce an instance of -Wdeclaration-after-statement
here.
fs/ext4/namei.c:834:12: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixing declarations and
code [-Wdeclaration-after-statement]
unsigned n = count - 1;
^
1 warning generated.
The quick hack would be changing the
if (0) {
to
#ifdef DX_DEBUG
if (1) {
but that seems kind of ugly.
Other options would be turning DX_DEBUG into a proper Kconfig symbol so
that IS_ENABLED could be used or maybe combine it into
CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG.
Cheers,
Nathan
