linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] OMAP: DSS2: remove non-zero check on variable r

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Date:   Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:42:40 +0100
From:   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...ia.com>,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] OMAP: DSS2: remove non-zero check on variable r


On 12/4/19 4:28 PM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Variable r is being initialized to zero, so the check of a non-zero
> rv is redundant and can be removed.
> 
> It appears that the previous case statements set r to be -EINVAL
> and the "Fallthrough" comment afterwards suggested it was going
> to fall through to this non-zero check but won't because of the
> break statement. Remove the confusion by removing the Fallthrough
> comment too.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Logically dead code")
> Fixes: b39a982ddecf ("OMAP: DSS2: omapfb driver")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Patch queued for v5.6, thanks.
 
Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics

> ---
>  drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/omapfb-main.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/omapfb-main.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/omapfb-main.c
> index 858c2c011d19..a2a2c1b205d9 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/omapfb-main.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/omapfb-main.c
> @@ -1154,16 +1154,12 @@ static int _setcolreg(struct fb_info *fbi, u_int regno, u_int red, u_int green,
>  		   r = fbdev->ctrl->setcolreg(regno, red, green, blue,
>  		   transp, update_hw_pal);
>  		   */
> -		/* Fallthrough */
>  		r = -EINVAL;
>  		break;
>  	case OMAPFB_COLOR_RGB565:
>  	case OMAPFB_COLOR_RGB444:
>  	case OMAPFB_COLOR_RGB24P:
>  	case OMAPFB_COLOR_RGB24U:
> -		if (r != 0)
> -			break;
> -
>  		if (regno < 16) {
>  			u32 pal;
>  			pal = ((red >> (16 - var->red.length)) <<
>