netdev - Re: [PATCH][next] net: bridge: Fix missing return assignment from br_vlan_replay

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Message-ID: <20210324160229.cyzepir5fnfnfeox@skbuf>
Date:   Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:02:29 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] net: bridge: Fix missing return assignment from
 br_vlan_replay_one call

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 03:09:50PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The call to br_vlan_replay_one is returning an error return value but
> this is not being assigned to err and the following check on err is
> currently always false because err was initialized to zero. Fix this
> by assigning err.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("'Constant' variable guards dead code")
> Fixes: 22f67cdfae6a ("net: bridge: add helper to replay VLANs installed on port")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>