From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Logically dead code at fs/afs/cell.c:206
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 22:21:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4923.1510957307@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171117215732.GA15974@embeddedor.com>
Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com> wrote:
> Today Coverity reported a "Logically dead code" issue at fs/afs/cell.c:206:
>
> if (!excl) {
> rcu_read_lock();
> cell = afs_lookup_cell_rcu(net, name, namesz);
> rcu_read_unlock();
> if (!IS_ERR(cell)) {
> if (excl) {
> afs_put_cell(net, cell);
> return ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
> }
> goto wait_for_cell;
> }
> }
>
> The problem is that when this code block is executed, the code block
> starting at line 211 makes no sense, as _excl_ can never be true.
Good catch. The interior "if (excl) { ... }" statement and body needs
removing entirely. Originally the outer "if (!excl)" wrapping it wasn't
there.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-17 22:21 UTC|newest]
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2017-11-17 21:57 Logically dead code at fs/afs/cell.c:206 Gustavo A. R. Silva
2017-11-17 22:21 ` David Howells [this message]
2017-11-17 22:26 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
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