From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752179AbdECQ3N (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2017 12:29:13 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:43366 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751118AbdECQ3F (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2017 12:29:05 -0400 From: Colin King To: "James E . J . Bottomley" , "Martin K . Petersen" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] scsi: pmcraid: remove redundant check to see if request_size is less than zero Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 17:29:01 +0100 Message-Id: <20170503162901.3623-1-colin.king@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Colin Ian King The 2nd check to see if request_size is less than zero is redundant because the first check takes error exit path on this condition. So, since it is redundant, remove it. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#146149 ("Logically Dead Code") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King --- drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c b/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c index a4aadf5f4dc6..1cc814f1505a 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c @@ -3770,9 +3770,6 @@ static long pmcraid_ioctl_passthrough( pmcraid_err("couldn't build passthrough ioadls\n"); goto out_free_cmd; } - } else if (request_size < 0) { - rc = -EINVAL; - goto out_free_cmd; } /* If data is being written into the device, copy the data from user -- 2.11.0