Hi, Colin King writes: > From: Colin Ian King > > The check for retval being less than zero is always true since > retval equal to -EPIPE at that point. Replace the existing > conditional with just return retval. > > Detected with CoverityScan, CID#114349 ("Logically dead code") > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King > --- > drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c b/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c > index 3525626..17c0810 100644 > --- a/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c > +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c > @@ -992,7 +992,7 @@ static int ch9_postconfig(struct usbtest_dev *dev) > dev_err(&iface->dev, > "hs dev qualifier --> %d\n", > retval); > - return (retval < 0) ? retval : -EDOM; > + return retval; you're changing return value here, are you sure there's nothing else depending on this error? -- balbi