If !WORDS_BIGENDIAN, it is pointless to test whether buf is NULL, because it is initialized to NULL and never changed. This makes Coverity complain, so we can just move all handling of "buf" under the #ifdef. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/ext2fs/ext_attr.c | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/ext_attr.c b/lib/ext2fs/ext_attr.c index 52664eb..ddcc89f 100644 --- a/lib/ext2fs/ext_attr.c +++ b/lib/ext2fs/ext_attr.c @@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ errcode_t ext2fs_write_ext_attr2(ext2_filsys fs, blk64_t block, void *inbuf) { errcode_t retval; char *write_buf; +#ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN char *buf = NULL; -#ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN retval = ext2fs_get_mem(fs->blocksize, &buf); if (retval) return retval; @@ -94,8 +94,9 @@ errcode_t ext2fs_write_ext_attr2(ext2_filsys fs, blk64_t block, void *inbuf) write_buf = (char *) inbuf; #endif retval = io_channel_write_blk64(fs->io, block, 1, write_buf); - if (buf) - ext2fs_free_mem(&buf); +#ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN + ext2fs_free_mem(&buf); +#endif if (!retval) ext2fs_mark_changed(fs); return retval; -- 1.7.4.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html