Virtualization - Mar 2017 - [PATCH] virtio: remove redundant check on error return err

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>

err has previously been checked for a -ve error return so this
redundant check can be removed.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1415271 ("Logically Dead Code")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
index df548a6..ceb4395 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
@@ -173,8 +173,6 @@ static int vp_find_vqs_msix(struct virtio_device *vdev,
unsigned nvqs,
 		if (err < 0)
 			return err;
 	}
-	if (err < 0)
-		return err;
 
 	vp_dev->msix_vectors = nvectors;
 	vp_dev->msix_names = kmalloc_array(nvectors,
-- 
2.10.2

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 10:08 PM, Colin King <colin.king at canonical.com>
wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>
> err has previously been checked for a -ve error return so this
> redundant check can be removed.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1415271 ("Logically Dead Code")
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
> index df548a6..ceb4395 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
> @@ -173,8 +173,6 @@ static int vp_find_vqs_msix(struct virtio_device *vdev,
unsigned nvqs,
>                 if (err < 0)
>                         return err;
>         }
> -       if (err < 0)
> -               return err;
>
>         vp_dev->msix_vectors = nvectors;
>         vp_dev->msix_names = kmalloc_array(nvectors,
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha at redhat.com>