From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The return statement is incorrect, the error exit should be by assigning ret with the error code and exiting via label out. Thanks to Valdis Klētnieks for correcting my original fix. Addresses-Coverity: ("Structurally dead code") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- V2: exit via the got rather than returning via the return statement --- drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c b/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c index 5b5c2ca8c9aa..8c2130cc431b 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c +++ b/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c @@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ static int ffsLookupFile(struct inode *inode, char *path, struct file_id_t *fid) dentry = p_fs->fs_func->find_dir_entry(sb, &dir, &uni_name, num_entries, &dos_name, TYPE_ALL); if (dentry < -1) { - return FFS_NOTFOUND; + ret = FFS_NOTFOUND; goto out; } -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel