netdev - [PATCH bpf-next 1/3] libbpf: remove unneeded check for flags during detach

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Date:   Sat, 12 Jun 2021 08:05:00 +0530
From:   Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@...il.com>
To:     bpf@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next 1/3] libbpf: remove unneeded check for flags during detach

Coverity complained about this being unreachable code. It is right
because we already enforce flags to be unset, so a check validating the
flag value is redundant.

CID: 322808
Fixes: 715c5ce454a6 ("libbpf: Add low level TC-BPF management API")
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@...il.com>
---
 tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c b/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c
index d743c8721aa7..efbb50ad59d8 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c
@@ -675,8 +675,6 @@ static int __bpf_tc_detach(const struct bpf_tc_hook *hook,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (priority > UINT16_MAX)
 		return -EINVAL;
-	if (flags & ~BPF_TC_F_REPLACE)
-		return -EINVAL;
 	if (!flush) {
 		if (!handle || !priority)
 			return -EINVAL;
-- 
2.31.1