Redundant code in binlog checksum?

[Kristian Nielsen]

Hi,

I am currently looking at the WL#2540 binlog checksum code in lp:mysql-server.

I stumbled upon the following code, which looks strange:

static ulong fix_log_event_crc(uchar *buf, uint off, uint event_len,
                                 uint length, ha_checksum *crc)
{
  ...
  uint16 flags= uint2korr(event_begin + FLAGS_OFFSET);

  DBUG_ASSERT(length >= off + LOG_EVENT_HEADER_LEN); //at least common header in
  int2store(event_begin + FLAGS_OFFSET, flags);
  ...
}

The "flags" is read out, the written back in the same place, without ever
being changed or accessed. That looks strange and redundant?

Maybe there used to be a flag associated with the binlog checksum feature (the
worklog text still has reference to such flag), but when the flag was deleted
the reading/writing of the flag bytes was accidentally left in place? Or am I
missing something?

 - Kristian.