On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 4:05 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 3/14/22 9:03 AM, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> > Commit 01d0c698536f ("sr: implement ->free_disk to simplify refcounting")
> > refactored sr_block_open(), initialized one variable with a duplicate
> > assignment (probably an unintended copy & paste duplication) and turned one
> > error case into an early return, which makes the initialization of the
> > return variable needless.
> >
> > So, simplify the local variable initialization in sr_block_open() to make
> > the code a bit more clear.
> >
> > No functional change. No change in resulting object code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Christoph, please ack.
> >
> > Jens, please pick this minor clean-up on your -next branch on top of the
> > commit above.
>
> Should it have a Fixes line?
>
As it is really just syntactic clean-up, it does not deserve the
attention for any kind of severity assessment or potential
backporting, which usually comes with a Fixes: tag.
So, I personally do not consider a Fixes: tag needed. The code works
well before this patch, and well after this patch; it is just a bit
more clear now.
Lukas
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> Jens Axboe
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