netdev - Re: [PATCH] netxen_nic: set rcode to the return status from the call to netxen_issue

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Message-Id: <20170511.121633.1672073434604015576.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 11 May 2017 12:16:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     manish.chopra@...ium.com, rahul.verma@...ium.com,
        Dept-GELinuxNICDev@...ium.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netxen_nic: set rcode to the return status from the
 call to netxen_issue_cmd

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Tue,  9 May 2017 17:19:42 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Currently rcode is being initialized to NX_RCODE_SUCCESS and later it
> is checked to see if it is not NX_RCODE_SUCCESS which is never true. It
> appears that there is an unintentional missing assignment of rcode from
> the return of the call to netxen_issue_cmd() that was dropped in
> an earlier fix, so add it in.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#401900 ("Logically dead code")
> 
> Fixes: 2dcd5d95ad6b2 ("netxen_nic: fix cdrp race condition")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied.