On 11/11/2019 12:25, Jürgen Groß wrote:
> On 11.11.19 13:20, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The non-zero check on ret is always going to be false because
>> ret was initialized as zero and the only place it is set to
>> non-zero contains a return path before the non-zero check. Hence
>> the check is redundant and can be removed.
>
> Which version did you patch against? In current master the above
> statement is not true.
against today's linux-next
Colin
>
>
> Juergen
>
>>
>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Logically dead code")
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 5 -----
>> 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/xen/gntdev.c b/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
>> index 10cc5e9e612a..07d80b176118 100644
>> --- a/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
>> +++ b/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
>> @@ -524,11 +524,6 @@ static int gntdev_open(struct inode *inode,
>> struct file *flip)
>> }
>> #endif
>> - if (ret) {
>> - kfree(priv);
>> - return ret;
>> - }
>> -
>> flip->private_data = priv;
>> #ifdef CONFIG_XEN_GRANT_DMA_ALLOC
>> priv->dma_dev = gntdev_miscdev.this_device;
>>
>
