Wed, May 03, 2017 at 04:21:15PM CEST, wha...@bfs.de wrote:
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>Am 03.05.2017 15:50, schrieb Colin King:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
>>
>> head is previously null checked and so the 2nd null check on head
>> is redundant and therefore can be removed.
>>
>> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1399505 ("Logically dead code")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
>> ---
>> net/sched/cls_matchall.c | 3 +--
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/sched/cls_matchall.c b/net/sched/cls_matchall.c
>> index 2efb36c08f2a..dee469fed967 100644
>> --- a/net/sched/cls_matchall.c
>> +++ b/net/sched/cls_matchall.c
>> @@ -203,8 +203,7 @@ static int mall_change(struct net *net, struct sk_buff
>> *in_skb,
>>
>> *arg = (unsigned long) head;
>> rcu_assign_pointer(tp->root, new);
>> - if (head)
>> - call_rcu(&head->rcu, mall_destroy_rcu);
>> + call_rcu(&head->rcu, mall_destroy_rcu);
>> return 0;
>>
>> err_replace_hw_filter:
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>
>if someone cares .. the err=0 in the the line above the patch is also useless
>because err is never used again. Merging both if will save 1 indent level.
>
> err = mall_replace_hw_filter(tp, new, (unsigned long) new);
> if (err && tc_skip_sw(flags) )
> goto errout;
true, however unrelated to this patch :)
Please submit as a separate patch.
Thanks.
