Re: [PATCH] [RFC] io_uring: warning about unused-but-set parameter

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 2:18 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 02:13:44PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >
> > When enabling -Wunused warnings by building with W=1, I get an
> > instance of the -Wunused-but-set-parameter warning in the io_uring code:
> >
> > fs/io_uring.c: In function 'io_queue_async_work':
> > fs/io_uring.c:1445:61: error: parameter 'locked' set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-parameter]
> >  1445 | static void io_queue_async_work(struct io_kiocb *req, bool *locked)
> >       |                                                       ~~~~~~^~~~~~
> >
> > There are very few warnings of this type, so it would be nice to enable
> > this by default and fix all the existing instances. I was almost
> > done, but this was added recently as a precaution to prevent code
> > from using the parameter, which could be done by either removing
> > the initialization, or by adding a (fake) use of the variable, which
> > I do here with the cast to void.
>
> Please don't.  These warning are utterly stupid and should not be
> enabled.  For anything that is a "method" of sorts (that is assigned
> to a function pointer), unused argument are perfectly normal.

I'm not suggesting to enable -Wunused-parameter, which would be
complete madness of crouse, only -Wunused-but-set-parameter,
which is already part of W=1 and has the potential of catching
actual bugs such as

int f(int val)
{
      if (val = 1)
            return 0;

       return -1;
}

          Arnd