linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] apparmor: remove dead code

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Date:   Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:21:20 -0700
From:   John Johansen <john.johansen@...onical.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
Cc:     linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] apparmor: remove dead code

On 08/23/2018 06:42 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:

thank you for the patch, but a fix for this issue was pushed to apparmor-next yesterday

> Due to commit fb5841091f28 ("apparmor: remove no-op permission check
> in policy_unpack"), there is some leftover code.
> 
> Coverity reports this issue as Structurally dead code. Fix this by
> removing such code.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1472998 ("Structurally dead code")
> Fixes: fb5841091f28 ("apparmor: remove no-op permission check in policy_unpack")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
> ---
>  security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c b/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
> index 3647b58..21cb384 100644
> --- a/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
> +++ b/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
> @@ -422,10 +422,6 @@ static struct aa_dfa *unpack_dfa(struct aa_ext *e)
>  	}
>  
>  	return dfa;
> -
> -fail:
> -	aa_put_dfa(dfa);
> -	return ERR_PTR(-EPROTO);
>  }
>  
>  /**
>