* [PATCH] netfilter: remove redundant check on ret being non-zero
@ 2017-02-28 11:31 Colin King
2017-03-06 17:06 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Colin King @ 2017-02-28 11:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso, Jozsef Kadlecsik, David S . Miller,
Alexey Kuznetsov, James Morris, Hideaki YOSHIFUJI,
Patrick McHardy, netfilter-devel, coreteam, netdev
Cc: kernel-janitors, linux-kernel
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
ret is initialized to zero and if it is set to non-zero in the
xt_entry_foreach loop then we exit via the out_free label. Hence
the check for ret being non-zero is redundant and can be removed.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1357132 ("Logically Dead Code")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
index 6241a81..f17dab1 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
@@ -562,8 +562,6 @@ static int translate_table(struct xt_table_info *newinfo, void *entry0,
XT_ERROR_TARGET) == 0)
++newinfo->stacksize;
}
- if (ret != 0)
- goto out_free;
ret = -EINVAL;
if (i != repl->num_entries)
--
2.10.2
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2017-02-28 11:31 [PATCH] netfilter: remove redundant check on ret being non-zero Colin King
@ 2017-03-06 17:06 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso @ 2017-03-06 17:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Colin King
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik, David S . Miller, Alexey Kuznetsov,
James Morris, Hideaki YOSHIFUJI, Patrick McHardy, netfilter-devel,
coreteam, netdev, kernel-janitors, linux-kernel
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:31:15AM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> ret is initialized to zero and if it is set to non-zero in the
> xt_entry_foreach loop then we exit via the out_free label. Hence
> the check for ret being non-zero is redundant and can be removed.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1357132 ("Logically Dead Code")
Applied, thanks.
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