netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] tc: q_ets: drop dead code from argument parsing

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Date:   Thu, 6 May 2021 08:43:30 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] tc: q_ets: drop dead code from argument parsing

On 5/1/21 10:44 AM, Andrea Claudi wrote:
> Checking for nbands to be at least 1 at this point is useless. Indeed:
> - ets requires "bands", "quanta" or "strict" to be specified
> - if "bands" is specified, nbands cannot be negative, see parse_nbands()
> - if "strict" is specified, nstrict cannot be negative, see
>   parse_nbands()
> - if "quantum" is specified, nquanta cannot be negative, see
>   parse_quantum()
> - if "bands" is not specified, nbands is set to nstrict+nquanta
> - the previous if statement takes care of the case when none of them are
>   specified and nbands is 0, terminating execution.
> 
> Thus nbands cannot be < 1 at this point and this code cannot be executed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@...hat.com>
> ---
>  tc/q_ets.c | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tc/q_ets.c b/tc/q_ets.c
> index e7903d50..7380bb2f 100644
> --- a/tc/q_ets.c
> +++ b/tc/q_ets.c
> @@ -147,11 +147,6 @@ parse_priomap:
>  		explain();
>  		return -1;
>  	}
> -	if (nbands < 1) {
> -		fprintf(stderr, "The number of \"bands\" must be >= 1\n");
> -		explain();
> -		return -1;
> -	}
>  	if (nstrict + nquanta > nbands) {
>  		fprintf(stderr, "Not enough total bands to cover all the strict bands and quanta\n");
>  		explain();
> 

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