Hello! This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20210331 as part of the linux-next scan project: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits: None 8d02e7da87a0 ("netfilter: nf_log_bridge: merge with nf_log_syslog") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1503586: Control flow issues (DEADCODE) /net/netfilter/nf_log_syslog.c: 1047 in nf_log_syslog_init() 1041 ret = nf_log_register(NFPROTO_NETDEV, &nf_netdev_logger); 1042 if (ret < 0) 1043 goto err4; 1044 1045 nf_log_register(NFPROTO_BRIDGE, &nf_bridge_logger); 1046 if (ret < 0) vvv CID 1503586: Control flow issues (DEADCODE) vvv Execution cannot reach this statement: "goto err5;". 1047 goto err5; 1048 1049 return 0; 1050 err5: 1051 nf_log_unregister(&nf_netdev_logger); 1052 err4: If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first): Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1503586 ("Control flow issues") Fixes: 8d02e7da87a0 ("netfilter: nf_log_bridge: merge with nf_log_syslog") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot