linux-kernel - [PATCH][next] futex: fix assigned ret variable that is never read

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Message-Id: <20210818131840.34262-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:18:40 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][next] futex: fix assigned ret variable that is never read

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Currently the check on the rt_waiter and top_waiter->pi_state is
assigning an error return code to ret but this later gets re-assigned,
hence the check is currently ineffective. I believe the original
intent was to return -EINVAL rather than assign it to ret. Fix this.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Fixes: dc7109aaa233 ("futex: Validate waiter correctly in futex_proxy_trylock_atomic()")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 kernel/futex.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index e7b4c6121da4..30e7daebaec8 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -2025,7 +2025,7 @@ futex_proxy_trylock_atomic(u32 __user *pifutex, struct futex_hash_bucket *hb1,
 	 * and waiting on the 'waitqueue' futex which is always !PI.
 	 */
 	if (!top_waiter->rt_waiter || top_waiter->pi_state)
-		ret = -EINVAL;
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/* Ensure we requeue to the expected futex. */
 	if (!match_futex(top_waiter->requeue_pi_key, key2))
-- 
2.32.0