[PATCH] smb: client: Simplify a return statement in get_smb2_acl_by_path()

[Steve French]

As pointed out by the kernel test robot a few minutes ago, this patch
would introduce a regression (uninitialized rc variable in free_xid
macro), so will remove this patch from for-next.


On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring at web.de> wrote:
>
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 21:56:34 +0200
>
> Return an error pointer without referencing another local variable
> in an if branch of this function implementation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
> ---
>  fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c
> index 7c3e96260fd4..bb5eda032aa4 100644
> --- a/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c
> +++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c
> @@ -3216,9 +3216,8 @@ get_smb2_acl_by_path(struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb,
>
>         utf16_path = cifs_convert_path_to_utf16(path, cifs_sb);
>         if (!utf16_path) {
> -               rc = -ENOMEM;
>                 free_xid(xid);
> -               return ERR_PTR(rc);
> +               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>         }
>
>         oparms = (struct cifs_open_parms) {
> --
> 2.51.0
>
>


-- 
Thanks,

Steve