linux-kernel - [Bug report] Possible wrong condition

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Date:   Tue, 4 Oct 2022 15:21:30 +0500
From:   Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@...labora.com>
To:     Hawking Zhang <Hawking.Zhang@....com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Cc:     usama.anjum@...labora.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Collabora Kernel ML <kernel@...labora.com>,
        kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
        amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: [Bug report] Possible wrong condition

Hello,

It seems there is some dead or not-needed code. Either the if condition
isn't needed or condition is wrong. As this
greater-than-or-equal-to-zero comparison of an unsigned value is always
true. "version_minor >= 0". Please have a look at it.

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_rlc.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_rlc.c
index 012b72d00e04..be9a6aad8541 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_rlc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_rlc.c
@@ -526,6 +526,8 @@ int amdgpu_gfx_rlc_init_microcode(struct
amdgpu_device *adev,
        if (version_major == 2 && version_minor == 1)
                adev->gfx.rlc.is_rlc_v2_1 = true;

+       // The following condition is always true as version_minor is
unsigned.
+       // Why is this condition needed at all?
        if (version_minor >= 0) {
                err = amdgpu_gfx_rlc_init_microcode_v2_0(adev);
                if (err) {

-- 
Muhammad Usama Anjum