'status' is known to be 0 at the point. And nvmet_auth_challenge() return a -E<ERROR_CODE> or 0. So these lines of code should just be removed. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> --- The dead code became obvious after commit be2ada6d0ed0 ("nvmet-auth: fix return value check in auth receive") --- drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c b/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c index 7970a7640e58..038032e46145 100644 --- a/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c @@ -483,15 +483,6 @@ void nvmet_execute_auth_receive(struct nvmet_req *req) status = NVME_SC_INTERNAL; break; } - if (status) { - req->sq->dhchap_status = status; - nvmet_auth_failure1(req, d, al); - pr_warn("ctrl %d qid %d: challenge status (%x)\n", - ctrl->cntlid, req->sq->qid, - req->sq->dhchap_status); - status = 0; - break; - } req->sq->dhchap_step = NVME_AUTH_DHCHAP_MESSAGE_REPLY; break; case NVME_AUTH_DHCHAP_MESSAGE_SUCCESS1: -- 2.34.1