Re: drivers/net/xen-netfront.c: bogus code

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The Coverity checker spotted the following bogus code
> in drivers/net/xen-netfront.c:
>
> <--  snip  -->
>
> ...
> static void xennet_alloc_rx_buffers(struct net_device *dev)
> {
> ...
>         for (nr_flips = i = 0; ; i++) {
>                 skb = __skb_dequeue(&np->rx_batch);
>                 if (skb == NULL)
>                         break;
>
>                 skb->dev = dev;
>
>                 id = xennet_rxidx(req_prod + i);
>
>                 BUG_ON(np->rx_skbs[id]);
>                 np->rx_skbs[id] = skb;
>
>                 ref = gnttab_claim_grant_reference(&np->gref_rx_head);
>                 BUG_ON((signed short)ref < 0);
>                 np->grant_rx_ref[id] = ref;
>
>                 pfn = page_to_pfn(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[0].page);
>                 vaddr = page_address(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[0].page);
>
>                 req = RING_GET_REQUEST(&np->rx, req_prod + i);
>                 gnttab_grant_foreign_access_ref(ref,
>                                                 np->xbdev->otherend_id,
>                                                 pfn_to_mfn(pfn),
>                                                 0);
>
>                 req->id = id;
>                 req->gref = ref;
>         }
>
>         if (nr_flips != 0) {
> ...
>
> <--  snip  -->
>
> Note that "nr_flips" is always 0 in the last line.
>   

Thanks.  That's probably a residual from me removing the page-flipping
code.  I'll give it another pass.

    J
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