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

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Date:   Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:51:02 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: remove redundant check on ret being non-zero

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

The error return variable ret is initialized to zero and then is
checked to see if it is non-zero in the if-block that follows it.
It is therefore impossible for ret to be non-zero after the if-block
hence the check is redundant and can be removed.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1021040 ("Logically dead code")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
index 3a11ae63676e..f05fcc67efa6 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
@@ -1143,8 +1143,6 @@ static inline int __add_inode_ref(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 				goto again;
 			}
 			kfree(victim_name);
-			if (ret)
-				return ret;
 next:
 			cur_offset += victim_name_len + sizeof(*extref);
 		}
-- 
2.11.0