From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pan Bian Subject: [PATCH 1/1] net: caif: remove ineffective check Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 12:15:44 +0800 Message-ID: <1480824944-3439-1-git-send-email-bianpan2016@163.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pan Bian To: Dmitry Tarnyagin , "David S. Miller" , Sergei Shtylyov , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org The check of the return value of sock_register() is ineffective. "if(!err)" seems to be a typo. It is better to propagate the error code to the callers of caif_sktinit_module(). This patch removes the check statment and directly returns the result of sock_register(). Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188751 Signed-off-by: Pan Bian --- net/caif/caif_socket.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/caif/caif_socket.c b/net/caif/caif_socket.c index aa209b1..92cbbd2 100644 --- a/net/caif/caif_socket.c +++ b/net/caif/caif_socket.c @@ -1107,10 +1107,7 @@ static int caif_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int protocol, static int __init caif_sktinit_module(void) { - int err = sock_register(&caif_family_ops); - if (!err) - return err; - return 0; + return sock_register(&caif_family_ops); } static void __exit caif_sktexit_module(void) -- 1.9.1