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From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
To: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>,
	Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>, Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>,
	Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: mana: remove unreachable dead code in mana_bpf()
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:03:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <478bf88c-cb76-416d-831a-5fa7856d65ce@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aoxThygUBWq0WqfS@linuxonhyperv3.guj3yctzbm1etfxqx2vob5hsef.xx.internal.cloudapp.net>

On 8/24/26 4:21 PM, Hamza Mahfooz wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 12:39:06PM +0530, Muhammad Falak R Wani wrote:
>> mana_bpf() declares an uninitialized 'ret' and falls through to a
>> trailing 'return ret;' after a switch statement whose every case
>> (XDP_SETUP_PROG and default) already returns unconditionally. This
>> statement is therefore unreachable dead code left over from an
>> earlier refactor, and it would return an uninitialized value if it
>> were ever reached.
>>
>> Drop the unused variable and the unreachable return.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com>
> 
> Fixes: ed5356b53f07 ("net: mana: Add XDP support")
> Reviewed-by: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
Please note that the current guidance is no fixes tag for net-next changes.

Also this specific change does not address any real issue, it's just
code cleanup.

/P


  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-25 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-24  7:09 [PATCH net-next] net: mana: remove unreachable dead code in mana_bpf() Muhammad Falak R Wani
2026-08-24 14:21 ` Hamza Mahfooz
2026-08-25 10:03   ` Paolo Abeni [this message]
2026-08-25 10:00 ` Paolo Abeni

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