linux-kernel - [PATCH] netfilter: remove redundant check on ret being non-zero

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Message-Id: <20170228113115.19888-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:31:15 +0000
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: remove redundant check on ret being non-zero

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

ret is initialized to zero and if it is set to non-zero in the
xt_entry_foreach loop then we exit via the out_free label. Hence
the check for ret being non-zero is redundant and can be removed.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1357132 ("Logically Dead Code")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
index 6241a81..f17dab1 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
@@ -562,8 +562,6 @@ static int translate_table(struct xt_table_info *newinfo, void *entry0,
 		    XT_ERROR_TARGET) == 0)
 			++newinfo->stacksize;
 	}
-	if (ret != 0)
-		goto out_free;
 
 	ret = -EINVAL;
 	if (i != repl->num_entries)
-- 
2.10.2