The patch titled Subject: hugetlbfs: remove unneeded return value of hugetlb_vmtruncate() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is hugetlbfs-remove-unneeded-return-value-of-hugetlb_vmtruncate.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hugetlbfs-remove-unneeded-return-value-of-hugetlb_vmtruncate.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/hugetlbfs-remove-unneeded-return-value-of-hugetlb_vmtruncate.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: hugetlbfs: remove unneeded return value of hugetlb_vmtruncate() The function hugetlb_vmtruncate() is guaranteed to always success since commit 7aa91e104028 ("hugetlb: allow extending ftruncate on hugetlbfs"). So we should remove the unneeded return value which is always 0. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210208084637.47789-1-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c~hugetlbfs-remove-unneeded-return-value-of-hugetlb_vmtruncate +++ a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c @@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ static void hugetlbfs_evict_inode(struct clear_inode(inode); } -static int hugetlb_vmtruncate(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset) +static void hugetlb_vmtruncate(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset) { pgoff_t pgoff; struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping; @@ -582,7 +582,6 @@ static int hugetlb_vmtruncate(struct ino hugetlb_vmdelete_list(&mapping->i_mmap, pgoff, 0); i_mmap_unlock_write(mapping); remove_inode_hugepages(inode, offset, LLONG_MAX); - return 0; } static long hugetlbfs_punch_hole(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t len) @@ -780,9 +779,7 @@ static int hugetlbfs_setattr(struct dent if ((newsize < oldsize && (info->seals & F_SEAL_SHRINK)) || (newsize > oldsize && (info->seals & F_SEAL_GROW))) return -EPERM; - error = hugetlb_vmtruncate(inode, newsize); - if (error) - return error; + hugetlb_vmtruncate(inode, newsize); } setattr_copy(inode, attr); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-page_owner-use-helper-function-zone_end_pfn-to-get-end_pfn.patch mm-fix-potential-pte_unmap_unlock-pte-error.patch mm-simplify-the-vm_bug_on-condition-in-pmdp_huge_clear_flush.patch mm-pgtable-genericc-optimize-the-vm_bug_on-condition-in-pmdp_huge_clear_flush.patch mm-memoryc-fix-potential-pte_unmap_unlock-pte-error.patch mm-hugetlb-fix-potential-double-free-in-hugetlb_register_node-error-path.patch mm-hugetlb-avoid-unnecessary-hugetlb_acct_memory-call.patch mm-hugetlb-use-helper-huge_page_order-and-pages_per_huge_page.patch mm-hugetlb-fix-use-after-free-when-subpool-max_hpages-accounting-is-not-enabled.patch mm-hugetlb-fix-some-comment-typos.patch mm-remove-unused-return-value-of-set_huge_zero_page.patch hugetlb_cgroup-use-helper-pages_per_huge_page-in-hugetlb_cgroup.patch mm-hugetlb-use-helper-function-range_in_vma-in-page_table_shareable.patch mm-workingsetc-avoid-unnecessary-max_nodes-estimation-in-count_shadow_nodes.patch z3fold-remove-unused-attribute-for-release_z3fold_page.patch z3fold-simplify-the-zhdr-initialization-code-in-init_z3fold_page.patch mm-compaction-remove-duplicated-vm_bug_on_page-pagelocked.patch mm-mempolicy-use-helper-range_in_vma-in-queue_pages_test_walk.patch hugetlbfs-remove-useless-bug_oninode-in-hugetlbfs_setattr.patch hugetlbfs-use-helper-macro-default_hstate-in-init_hugetlbfs_fs.patch hugetlbfs-correct-obsolete-function-name-in-hugetlbfs_read_iter.patch hugetlbfs-remove-meaningless-variable-avoid_reserve.patch hugetlbfs-make-hugepage-size-conversion-more-readable.patch hugetlbfs-correct-some-obsolete-comments-about-inode-i_mutex.patch hugetlbfs-fix-some-comment-typos.patch hugetlbfs-remove-unneeded-return-value-of-hugetlb_vmtruncate.patch mm-memory_hotplug-use-helper-function-zone_end_pfn-to-get-end_pfn.patch mm-mlock-stop-counting-mlocked-pages-when-none-vma-is-found.patch mm-rmap-correct-some-obsolete-comments-of-anon_vma.patch mm-rmap-remove-unneeded-semicolon-in-page_not_mapped.patch mm-rmap-fix-obsolete-comment-in-__page_check_anon_rmap.patch mm-rmap-use-page_not_mapped-in-try_to_unmap.patch mm-rmap-correct-obsolete-comment-of-page_get_anon_vma.patch mm-rmap-fix-potential-pte_unmap-on-an-not-mapped-pte.patch mm-zsmallocc-convert-to-use-kmem_cache_zalloc-in-cache_alloc_zspage.patch mm-zsmallocc-use-page_private-to-access-page-private.patch