On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 12:35:34PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But when I actually grep for it, I see 4 call-sites that don't check > the return value, and 5 that do. So it's more like 55% of callers that > do check. > > Anyway, this is a false positive. You don't have to check the return > value. The main example of doing so is the page-out code in > mm/vmscan.c, and it does so just to keep track of success/fail > statistics. Okay, cool; thanks for taking a closer look at it. -- Kees Cook
