netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: caif: remove redundant null check on frontpkt

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Date:   Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:54:26 +0300
From:   Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Dmitry Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@...kless.no>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: caif: remove redundant null check on frontpkt

Hello!

On 09/14/2018 08:19 PM, Colin King wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> It is impossible for frontpkt to be null at the point of the null
> check because it has been assigned from rearpkt and there is no
> way realpkt can be null at the point of the assignment because

   rearpkt?

> of the sanity checking and exit paths taken previously. Remove
> the redundant null check.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#114434 ("Logically dead code")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
[...]

MBR, Sergei