This check will be also performed in generic_file_read_iter() so we do not want to check this two times in a row. This was founded with Smatch fs/ntfs3/file.c:803 ntfs_file_read_iter() warn: unused return: count = iov_iter_count() Signed-off-by: Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@xxxxxxxxx> --- I cc Dan also because I am happy that I finally managed to install Smack and straight away I found something with it. Thank you for this great tool. Next step is to integrate Smack to CI system. But will probanly take a moment. --- fs/ntfs3/file.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/file.c b/fs/ntfs3/file.c index cb736701f2cc..5d41b84067ee 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs3/file.c +++ b/fs/ntfs3/file.c @@ -799,8 +799,6 @@ int ntfs3_setattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct dentry *dentry, static ssize_t ntfs_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter) { - ssize_t err; - size_t count = iov_iter_count(iter); struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp; struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host; struct ntfs_inode *ni = ntfs_i(inode); @@ -829,9 +827,7 @@ static ssize_t ntfs_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter) return -EOPNOTSUPP; } - err = count ? generic_file_read_iter(iocb, iter) : 0; - - return err; + return generic_file_read_iter(iocb, iter); } /* returns array of locked pages */ -- 2.30.2