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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next] netfilter: clean up returns in nf_conntrack_log_invalid_sysctl()
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2025 13:35:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aJCM48RFXO6hjgGm@stanley.mountain> (raw)

Smatch complains that these look like error paths with missing error
codes, especially the one where we return if nf_log_is_registered() is
true:

    net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c:575 nf_conntrack_log_invalid_sysctl()
    warn: missing error code? 'ret'

In fact, all these return zero deliberately.  Change them to return a
literal instead which helps readability as well as silencing the warning.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c
index 9b8b10a85233..1f14ef0436c6 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c
@@ -567,16 +567,16 @@ nf_conntrack_log_invalid_sysctl(const struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 		return ret;
 
 	if (*(u8 *)table->data == 0)
-		return ret;
+		return 0;
 
 	/* Load nf_log_syslog only if no logger is currently registered */
 	for (i = 0; i < NFPROTO_NUMPROTO; i++) {
 		if (nf_log_is_registered(i))
-			return ret;
+			return 0;
 	}
 	request_module("%s", "nf_log_syslog");
 
-	return ret;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static struct ctl_table_header *nf_ct_netfilter_header;
-- 
2.47.2


             reply	other threads:[~2025-08-04 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-04 10:35 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2025-08-04 10:43 ` [PATCH net-next] netfilter: clean up returns in nf_conntrack_log_invalid_sysctl() Lance Yang

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