Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: remove redundant check on has_aliasing_ppgtt

From: Colin Ian King
Date: Tue Oct 10 2017 - 10:36:24 EST


On 10/10/17 15:35, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-10-10 at 14:47 +0100, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> There is a previous check to on has_aliasing_ppgtt that returns
>> 0 if it is false, so it is impossible for has_aliasing_ppgtt to
>> be false on the final return of function intel_sanitize_enable_ppgtt,
>> so final return in the function always will return 1. Hence the
>> redundant ternary operator can be replaced with a return 1.
>>
>> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1357136 ("Logically dead code")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks, I took it a few steps further and removed the variable
> altogether. I Cc'd you on the patch.

Yep, it's an improvement on my fix. Thanks for sorting that out.

Colin

>
> Regards, Joonas
>