From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On the error exit path, skb is always null, so the non-null check and __kfree_skb call are redundant. Remove the redundant code and just directly return with the appropriate error return code. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#114328 ("Logically Dead Code") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb3i/cxgb3i.c | 9 ++------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb3i/cxgb3i.c b/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb3i/cxgb3i.c index 1880eb6..3c9f8cf2 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb3i/cxgb3i.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb3i/cxgb3i.c @@ -979,14 +979,14 @@ static int init_act_open(struct cxgbi_sock *csk) csk->atid = cxgb3_alloc_atid(t3dev, &t3_client, csk); if (csk->atid < 0) { pr_err("NO atid available.\n"); - goto rel_resource; + return -EINVAL; } cxgbi_sock_set_flag(csk, CTPF_HAS_ATID); cxgbi_sock_get(csk); skb = alloc_wr(sizeof(struct cpl_act_open_req), 0, GFP_KERNEL); if (!skb) - goto rel_resource; + return -ENOMEM; skb->sk = (struct sock *)csk; set_arp_failure_handler(skb, act_open_arp_failure); csk->snd_win = cxgb3i_snd_win; @@ -1007,11 +1007,6 @@ static int init_act_open(struct cxgbi_sock *csk) cxgbi_sock_set_state(csk, CTP_ACTIVE_OPEN); send_act_open_req(csk, skb, csk->l2t); return 0; - -rel_resource: - if (skb) - __kfree_skb(skb); - return -EINVAL; } cxgb3_cpl_handler_func cxgb3i_cpl_handlers[NUM_CPL_CMDS] = { -- 2.10.2