On 05/26/2017 05:16 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 12:43 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
>> ppc64_defconfig) produced this warning:
>>
>> fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c: In function 'force_metapage':
>> fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c:714:2: warning: ignoring return value of 'write_one_page', declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
>> write_one_page(page);
>> ^
>> fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c: In function 'release_metapage':
>> fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c:759:4: warning: ignoring return value of 'write_one_page', declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
>> write_one_page(page);
>> ^
>>
>> Introduced by commit
>>
>> f8652aebee02 ("mm: drop "wait" parameter from write_one_page()")
>>
>> These call sites were updated for the droppping of the argument, but
>> not for the addition of __must_check :-(
>>
>
> (cc'ing Dave...)
>
> Yeah, that's a known issue. When Willy reviewed the patch originally he
> asked me to add a __must_check there so that JFS would pick up some
> warnings for this.
>
> JFS really ought to check the return code there and do something sane
> with it. Dave?
This is true. I promised to do something about it. I'll try to get a
patch out later today.
Dave
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