linux-kernel - re: [SCSI] esas2r: ATTO Technology ExpressSAS 6G SAS/SATA RAID Adapter Driver

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Date:   Fri, 10 Apr 2020 15:09:19 +0100
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Bradley Grove <bgrove@...otech.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: re: [SCSI] esas2r: ATTO Technology ExpressSAS 6G SAS/SATA RAID
 Adapter Driver

Hi,

Static analysis wit Coverity has found an issue in the following commit:

commit 26780d9e12edf45c0b98315de272b1feff5a8e93
Author: Bradley Grove <bgrove@...otech.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 23 10:35:45 2013 -0400

    [SCSI] esas2r: ATTO Technology ExpressSAS 6G SAS/SATA RAID Adapter
Driver

The issue is in function write_fs in drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_main.c
as follows:

101        int result = 0;
102
103        result = esas2r_write_fs(a, buf, off, count);
104
105        if (result < 0)

Unused value (UNUSED_VALUE) assigned_value: Assigning value 0 to result
here, but that stored value is not used.

106                result = 0;
107
108        return length;

I'm not sure what the intention was for this. Was length meant to be
assigned to 0 rather than result?  Or is the result < 0 check just
unnecessary code?

Colin