RE: [PATCH] scsi: aacraid: remove redundant zero check on ret

From: Dave Carroll
Date: Sun Feb 26 2017 - 15:38:09 EST


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin King [mailto:colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 7:44 AM
> To: dl-esc-Aacraid Linux Driver; James E . J . Bottomley; Martin K .
> Petersen; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH] scsi: aacraid: remove redundant zero check on ret
>
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The check for ret being zero is redundant as a few statements earlier we
> break out of the while loop if ret is non-zero. Thus we can remove the
> zero check and also the dead-code non-zero case too.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1411632 ("Logically Dead Code")
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c | 6 +-----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Dave Carroll <david.carroll@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>