linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][drm-next] drm/vmwgfx: remove redundant return ret statement

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Date:   Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:06:15 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     VMware Graphics <linux-graphics-maintainer@...are.com>,
        Sinclair Yeh <syeh@...are.com>,
        Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][drm-next] drm/vmwgfx: remove redundant return ret
 statement

On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 06:49:53PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The return statement is redundant as there is a return statement
> immediately before it so we have dead code that can be removed.
> Also remove the unused declaration of ret.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1473793 ("Structurally dead code")
> 

Introduced by commit b139d43dacef ("drm/vmwgfx: Make buffer object
lookups reference-free during validation").  The fix looks good.

regards,
dan carpenter