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

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Date:   Mon, 6 Mar 2017 18:06:36 +0100
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     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, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: remove redundant check on ret being non-zero

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:31:15AM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> 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")

Applied, thanks.