Re: [PATCH] libbpf: fix returnvar.cocci warnings

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 1:04 AM kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> tools/lib/bpf/relo_core.c:1064:8-11: Unneeded variable: "len". Return "0" on line 1086
>
>
>  Remove unneeded variable used to store return value.
>
> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/misc/returnvar.cocci
>
> Fixes: b58af63aab11 ("libbpf: Refactor CO-RE relo human description formatting routine")
> CC: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master
> head:   f02ac5c95dfd45d2f50ecc68d79177de326c668c
> commit: b58af63aab11e4ae00fe96de9505759cfdde8ee9 [6746/7265] libbpf: Refactor CO-RE relo human description formatting routine
> :::::: branch date: 2 hours ago
> :::::: commit date: 9 hours ago
>
>  tools/lib/bpf/relo_core.c |   10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/relo_core.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/relo_core.c
> @@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ static int bpf_core_format_spec(char *bu
>         const struct btf_enum *e;
>         const char *s;
>         __u32 type_id;
> -       int i, len = 0;
> +       int i;
>
>  #define append_buf(fmt, args...)                               \
>         ({                                                      \
> @@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ static int bpf_core_format_spec(char *bu
>                    type_id, btf_kind_str(t), str_is_empty(s) ? "<anon>" : s);
>
>         if (core_relo_is_type_based(spec->relo_kind))
> -               return len;
> +               return 0;

cocci is wrong.
It missed append_buf() macro.

Please fix cocci so we don't have to manually deal with
broken patches like this one.