netdev - [PATCH] dns: remove redundant zero length namelen check

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Date:   Tue,  9 Apr 2019 13:59:12 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] dns: remove redundant zero length namelen check

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

The zero namelen check is redundant as it has already been checked
for zero at the start of the function.  Remove the redundant check.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Logically Dead Code")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
index 76338c38738a..19aa32fc1802 100644
--- a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
+++ b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
@@ -94,8 +94,6 @@ int dns_query(const char *type, const char *name, size_t namelen,
 		desclen += typelen + 1;
 	}
 
-	if (!namelen)
-		namelen = strnlen(name, 256);
 	if (namelen < 3 || namelen > 255)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	desclen += namelen + 1;
-- 
2.20.1