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rds: send: Fix dead code in rds_sendmsg

Message ID 20180725152227.GA26303@embeddedor.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series rds: send: Fix dead code in rds_sendmsg | expand

Commit Message

Gustavo A. R. Silva July 25, 2018, 3:22 p.m. UTC
Currently, code at label *out* is unreachable. Fix this by updating
variable *ret* with -EINVAL, so the jump to *out* can be properly
executed instead of directly returning from function.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1472059 ("Structurally dead code")
Fixes: 1e2b44e78eea ("rds: Enable RDS IPv6 support")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
 net/rds/send.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Sowmini Varadhan July 25, 2018, 3:27 p.m. UTC | #1
On (07/25/18 10:22), Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Currently, code at label *out* is unreachable. Fix this by updating
> variable *ret* with -EINVAL, so the jump to *out* can be properly
> executed instead of directly returning from function.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1472059 ("Structurally dead code")
> Fixes: 1e2b44e78eea ("rds: Enable RDS IPv6 support")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

Acked-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Santosh Shilimkar July 25, 2018, 4:52 p.m. UTC | #2
On 7/25/2018 8:22 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Currently, code at label *out* is unreachable. Fix this by updating
> variable *ret* with -EINVAL, so the jump to *out* can be properly
> executed instead of directly returning from function.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1472059 ("Structurally dead code")
> Fixes: 1e2b44e78eea ("rds: Enable RDS IPv6 support")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
> ---
Looks fine.
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
David Miller July 26, 2018, 5:38 a.m. UTC | #3
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 10:22:27 -0500

> Currently, code at label *out* is unreachable. Fix this by updating
> variable *ret* with -EINVAL, so the jump to *out* can be properly
> executed instead of directly returning from function.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1472059 ("Structurally dead code")
> Fixes: 1e2b44e78eea ("rds: Enable RDS IPv6 support")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

Applied.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/rds/send.c b/net/rds/send.c
index 9604e1f..18e2b4d 100644
--- a/net/rds/send.c
+++ b/net/rds/send.c
@@ -1126,7 +1126,7 @@  int rds_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t payload_len)
 				if (addr4 == htonl(INADDR_ANY) ||
 				    addr4 == htonl(INADDR_BROADCAST) ||
 				    IN_MULTICAST(ntohl(addr4))) {
-					return -EINVAL;
+					ret = -EINVAL;
 					goto out;
 				}
 			}