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* [PATCH] net: can: dev: remove unused code in can_restart
@ 2017-10-21  3:36 Gustavo A. R. Silva
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From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2017-10-21  3:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Wolfgang Grandegger, Marc Kleine-Budde
  Cc: linux-can, netdev, linux-kernel, Gustavo A. R. Silva

Value assigned to variable err is overwritten at line
562: err = priv->do_set_mode(dev, CAN_MODE_START); before
it can be used.

Also, notice that this code has been there since 2014.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1227031
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
---
This code was tested by compilation only.

 drivers/net/can/dev.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev.c b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
index 365a8cc..064d0f6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
@@ -543,10 +543,9 @@ static void can_restart(struct net_device *dev)
 
 	/* send restart message upstream */
 	skb = alloc_can_err_skb(dev, &cf);
-	if (skb == NULL) {
-		err = -ENOMEM;
+	if (!skb)
 		goto restart;
-	}
+
 	cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_RESTARTED;
 
 	netif_rx(skb);
-- 
2.7.4

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