From: Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:59:12 +0100 > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > The zero namelen check is redundant as it has already been checked > for zero at the start of the function. Remove the redundant check. > > Addresses-Coverity: ("Logically Dead Code") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Applied to net-next. However it does look like two sets of semantics were considered. In one case rejecting a zero namelen and in another having it mean whatever the strings length is modulo the max of 256.