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ath6kl: remove redundant check of status != 0

Message ID 20190404134723.24667-1-colin.king@canonical.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit e643da21e19a62f928fb30f080470ea2e335b7f0
Delegated to: Kalle Valo
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Series ath6kl: remove redundant check of status != 0 | expand

Commit Message

Colin King April 4, 2019, 1:47 p.m. UTC
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

The check on status not being zero is redundant as previous code
paths that set status to an error value break out of the while
loop and hence status is never non-zero at the check. Remove
this redundant code.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Logically dead code")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Kalle Valo April 4, 2019, 2:33 p.m. UTC | #1
Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> writes:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> The check on status not being zero is redundant as previous code
> paths that set status to an error value break out of the while
> loop and hence status is never non-zero at the check. Remove
> this redundant code.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Logically dead code")

Is the coverity id missing?
Mukesh Ojha April 5, 2019, 6:50 a.m. UTC | #2
On 4/4/2019 7:17 PM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> The check on status not being zero is redundant as previous code
> paths that set status to an error value break out of the while
> loop and hence status is never non-zero at the check. Remove
> this redundant code.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Logically dead code")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>


Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org>

Cheers,
-Mukesh

> ---
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c | 3 ---
>   1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c
> index 434b66829646..c68848819a52 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c
> @@ -898,9 +898,6 @@ static int htc_process_trailer(struct htc_target *target, u8 *buffer,
>   			break;
>   		}
>   
> -		if (status != 0)
> -			break;
> -
>   		/* advance buffer past this record for next time around */
>   		buffer += record->len;
>   		len -= record->len;
Kalle Valo April 29, 2019, 2:50 p.m. UTC | #3
Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:

> The check on status not being zero is redundant as previous code
> paths that set status to an error value break out of the while
> loop and hence status is never non-zero at the check. Remove
> this redundant code.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Logically dead code")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

e643da21e19a ath6kl: remove redundant check of status != 0
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c
index 434b66829646..c68848819a52 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c
@@ -898,9 +898,6 @@  static int htc_process_trailer(struct htc_target *target, u8 *buffer,
 			break;
 		}
 
-		if (status != 0)
-			break;
-
 		/* advance buffer past this record for next time around */
 		buffer += record->len;
 		len -= record->len;