On 2021/7/2 17:34, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > We might as well just kill off the length variable while we're at it: Hi, Christoph: Maybe you need to write a separate patch. Because the patch I sent is to modify function iomap_seek_data(). I didn't look at the other functions. In fact, both iomap_seek_data() and iomap_seek_hole() need to be modified. The iomap_seek_data() may not be intuitive to delete the variable 'length'. I'm now analyzing if the "if (length <= 0)" statement in iomap_seek_data() is redundant (the condition is never true). > > > diff --git a/fs/iomap/seek.c b/fs/iomap/seek.c > index dab1b02eba5b7f..942e354e9e13e6 100644 > --- a/fs/iomap/seek.c > +++ b/fs/iomap/seek.c > @@ -35,23 +35,21 @@ loff_t > iomap_seek_hole(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, const struct iomap_ops *ops) > { > loff_t size = i_size_read(inode); > - loff_t length = size - offset; > loff_t ret; > > /* Nothing to be found before or beyond the end of the file. */ > if (offset < 0 || offset >= size) > return -ENXIO; > > - while (length > 0) { > - ret = iomap_apply(inode, offset, length, IOMAP_REPORT, ops, > - &offset, iomap_seek_hole_actor); > + while (offset < size) { > + ret = iomap_apply(inode, offset, size - offset, IOMAP_REPORT, > + ops, &offset, iomap_seek_hole_actor); > if (ret < 0) > return ret; > if (ret == 0) > break; > > offset += ret; > - length -= ret; > } > > return offset; > > . >