linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] RDMA/nes: remove redundant check on udata

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Date:   Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:10:26 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Faisal Latif <faisal.latif@...el.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] RDMA/nes: remove redundant check on udata

On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 11:06:36PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The non-null check on udata is redundant as this check was performed
> just a few statements earlier and the check is always true as udata
> must be non-null at this point. Remove redundant the check on udata
> and the redundant else part that can never be executed.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1477317 ("Logically dead code")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c | 73 +++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

Applied to for-next

Thanks,
Jason