Re: [PATCH 6/9] nfsd: fix empty-body warning in nfs4state.c

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 4/18/20 3:28 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-04-18 at 14:45 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>> On Apr 18, 2020, at 2:41 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Fix gcc empty-body warning when -Wextra is used:
>>>
>>> ../fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c:3898:3: warning: suggest braces around empty
>>> body in an ‘else’ statement [-Wempty-body]
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
>>> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>>> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
>>> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
>>> Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
>>
>> I have a patch in my queue that addresses this particular warning,
>> but your change works for me too.
>>
>> Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
>>
>> Unless Bruce objects.
>>
>>
>>> ---
>>> fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c |    3 ++-
>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> --- linux-next-20200417.orig/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
>>> +++ linux-next-20200417/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
>>> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
>>>
>>> #include <linux/file.h>
>>> #include <linux/fs.h>
>>> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
>>> #include <linux/slab.h>
>>> #include <linux/namei.h>
>>> #include <linux/swap.h>
>>> @@ -3895,7 +3896,7 @@ nfsd4_setclientid(struct svc_rqst *rqstp
>>> 		copy_clid(new, conf);
>>> 		gen_confirm(new, nn);
>>> 	} else /* case 4 (new client) or cases 2, 3 (client reboot): */
>>> -		;
>>> +		do_empty();
> 
> Urgh... This is just for documentation purposes anyway, so why not just
> turn it all into a comment by moving the 'else' into the comment field?
> 
> i.e.
> 	} /* else case 4 (.... */
> 
> 	new->cl_minorversion = 0;
>>> 	gen_callback(new, setclid, rqstp);
>>> 	add_to_unconfirmed(new);

Like I said earlier, since Chuck has a patch that addresses this,
let's just go with that.

thanks.
-- 
~Randy