Message ID | 20170503162901.3623-1-colin.king@canonical.com (mailing list archive) |
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State | Accepted, archived |
Headers | show |
On 05/03/2017 09:29 AM, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> > > The 2nd check to see if request_size is less than zero is redundant > because the first check takes error exit path on this condition. So, > since it is redundant, remove it. > > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#146149 ("Logically Dead Code") > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Colin, > The 2nd check to see if request_size is less than zero is redundant > because the first check takes error exit path on this condition. So, > since it is redundant, remove it. Applied to 4.12/scsi-fixes.
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c b/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c index a4aadf5f4dc6..1cc814f1505a 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c @@ -3770,9 +3770,6 @@ static long pmcraid_ioctl_passthrough( pmcraid_err("couldn't build passthrough ioadls\n"); goto out_free_cmd; } - } else if (request_size < 0) { - rc = -EINVAL; - goto out_free_cmd; } /* If data is being written into the device, copy the data from user