2017-05-17 11:24 GMT-07:00 Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > pages is being allocated however a null check on bv is being used > to see if the allocation failed. Fix this by checking if pages is > null. > > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1432974 ("Logically dead code") > > Fixes: ccf7f4088af2dd ("CIFS: Add asynchronous context to support kernel AIO") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/cifs/misc.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/cifs/misc.c b/fs/cifs/misc.c > index b08531977daa..3b147dc6af63 100644 > --- a/fs/cifs/misc.c > +++ b/fs/cifs/misc.c > @@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ setup_aio_ctx_iter(struct cifs_aio_ctx *ctx, struct iov_iter *iter, int rw) > > if (!pages) { > pages = vmalloc(max_pages * sizeof(struct page *)); > - if (!bv) { > + if (!pages) { > kvfree(bv); > return -ENOMEM; > } > -- > 2.11.0 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Thanks for catching this! Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Best regards, Pavel Shilovsky -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html