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Date:   Sat, 18 Apr 2020 12:13:38 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] drivers/base: fix empty-body warnings in
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On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 11:55:05AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-04-18 at 11:53 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On 4/18/20 11:50 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 11:41:09AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > > @@ -294,11 +295,11 @@ void dev_coredumpm(struct device *dev, s
> > > >  
> > > >  	if (sysfs_create_link(&devcd->devcd_dev.kobj, &dev->kobj,
> > > >  			      "failing_device"))
> > > > -		/* nothing - symlink will be missing */;
> > > > +		do_empty(); /* nothing - symlink will be missing */
> > > >  
> > > >  	if (sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &devcd->devcd_dev.kobj,
> > > >  			      "devcoredump"))
> > > > -		/* nothing - symlink will be missing */;
> > > > +		do_empty(); /* nothing - symlink will be missing */
> > > >  
> > > >  	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&devcd->del_wk, devcd_del);
> > > >  	schedule_delayed_work(&devcd->del_wk, DEVCD_TIMEOUT);
> > > 
> > > Could just remove the 'if's?
> > > 
> > > +	sysfs_create_link(&devcd->devcd_dev.kobj, &dev->kobj,
> > > +			"failing_device");
> > > 
> > 
> > OK.
> 
> sysfs_create_link is __must_check

Oh, I missed the declaration -- I just saw the definition.  This is a
situation where __must_check hurts us and it should be removed.

Or this code is wrong and it should be

	WARN(sysfs_create_link(&devcd->devcd_dev.kobj, &dev->kobj,
			"failing_device");

like drivers/pci/controller/vmd.c and drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c

Either way, the do_empty() construct feels like the wrong way of covering
up the warning.