After commit 1a4240f4764a ("DNS: Separate out CIFS DNS Resolver code") a dead code exists in function dns_query
code show as below: if (!name || namelen == 0) return -EINVAL; /*Now the value of "namelen" cannot be equal to 0*/ .... if (!namelen) /*The condition "!namelen"" cannot be true*/ namelen = strnlen(name, 256); /*deadcode*/ Modify parameter checking to avoid dead code Signed-off-by: nixiaoming <nixiaom...@huawei.com> --- net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c index 49da670..f2acee2 100644 --- a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c +++ b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c @@ -81,7 +81,9 @@ int dns_query(const char *type, const char *name, size_t namelen, kenter("%s,%*.*s,%zu,%s", type, (int)namelen, (int)namelen, name, namelen, options); - if (!name || namelen == 0) + if (!name || namelen < 3 || namelen > 255) + return -EINVAL; + if (namelen > strnlen(name, 256)) /*maybe only need part of name*/ return -EINVAL; /* construct the query key description as "[<type>:]<name>" */ @@ -94,10 +96,6 @@ int dns_query(const char *type, const char *name, size_t namelen, desclen += typelen + 1; } - if (!namelen) - namelen = strnlen(name, 256); - if (namelen < 3 || namelen > 255) - return -EINVAL; desclen += namelen + 1; desc = kmalloc(desclen, GFP_KERNEL); -- 2.10.1