netdev - [PATCH] xircom: remove redundant error check on variable err

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Message-Id: <20210407093922.484571-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date:   Wed,  7 Apr 2021 10:39:22 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] xircom: remove redundant error check on variable err

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

The error check on err is always false as err is always 0 at the
port_found label. The code is redundant and can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Logically dead code")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/xirc2ps_cs.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/xirc2ps_cs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/xirc2ps_cs.c
index 3e337142b516..2049d76a0e68 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/xirc2ps_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/xirc2ps_cs.c
@@ -798,8 +798,6 @@ xirc2ps_config(struct pcmcia_device * link)
 	    goto config_error;
     }
   port_found:
-    if (err)
-	 goto config_error;
 
     /****************
      * Now allocate an interrupt line.	Note that this does not
-- 
2.30.2