From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The 2nd check for a non-zero return from copy_to_user is redundant as it is has already been made a few lines earlier. This check was made redundant because of previous fix to the copy_to_user error return check. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#114347 ("Logically Dead Code") Fixes: 1865a9c382ede ("USB: adutux: fix misuse of return value of copy_to_user()") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/misc/adutux.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/adutux.c b/drivers/usb/misc/adutux.c index 43a677f..c5fa584 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/misc/adutux.c +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/adutux.c @@ -389,10 +389,6 @@ static ssize_t adu_read(struct file *file, __user char *buffer, size_t count, dev->secondary_head += (amount - i); bytes_read += (amount - i); bytes_to_read -= (amount - i); - if (i) { - retval = bytes_read ? bytes_read : -EFAULT; - goto exit; - } } else { /* we check the primary buffer */ spin_lock_irqsave (&dev->buflock, flags); -- 2.10.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html