Re: dm crypt: remove an impossible condition

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On Fri, Mar 17 2017 at  4:46pm -0400,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Static checkers complain that it doesn't make sense to check if "sval"
> is NULL.  The intention was to check if strchr() returned NULL, but in
> that situation "sval" would be "NULL + 1" so the check doesn't work.  We
> know from the sscanf() that there is a ':' character in the string so
> the check is unnecessary and can be removed.
> 
> Now that the check doesn't depend on "sval" it can be moved earlier
> for readability.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Dan, I've folded this fix into the original commit, see:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-4.12&id=cf22cd5f3afe7335afee5659f7450000e8fa2a15

I didn't add your Signed-off-by though, I can backfill that if you
like.. it is just I didn't want to taint you with all the extensive
changes in that commit.

Mike
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