On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 01:57:13PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently the loop that calls log_write_hva on each iovec is never
> executed because of an incorrect error check on the return from the
> call to translate_desc. The check should be checking for a -ve error
> return and because it makes no sense to iterate over zero items, the
> checks should also check for zero too.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1476969 ("Logically dead code")
>
> Fixes: cc5e71075947 ("vhost: log dirty page correctly")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Jason posted a similar patch recently.
Are you happy with that one?
> ---
> drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> index 24a129fcdd61..a9a1709a859a 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -1788,7 +1788,7 @@ static int log_used(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, u64 used_offset, u64 len)
>
> ret = translate_desc(vq, (uintptr_t)vq->used + used_offset,
> len, iov, 64, VHOST_ACCESS_WO);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret <= 0)
> return ret;
>
> for (i = 0; i < ret; i++) {
> --
> 2.20.1
