linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: usb: asix_devices: fix missing return code check on call to asix_write_medium

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Date:   Wed, 01 Mar 2017 12:52:26 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     robert.foss@...labora.com, grundler@...gle.com, allan@...x.com.tw,
        vpalatin@...omium.org, jarod@...hat.com, peter.chen@....com,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: usb: asix_devices: fix missing return code check
 on call to asix_write_medium_mode

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:58:22 +0000

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The call to asix_write_medium_mode is not updating the return code ret
> and yet ret is being checked for an error. Fix this by assigning ret to
> the return code from the call asix_write_medium_mode.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1357148 ("Logically Dead Code")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied.