Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2019-09-01

Re: [PATCH] netlabel: remove redundant assignment to pointer iter

From: Christophe JAILLET <hidden>
Date: 2019-09-01 17:20:29
Also in: kernel-janitors, lkml, netdev

Le 01/09/2019 à 18:04, Paul Moore a écrit :
On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 11:52 AM Colin King [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
From: Colin Ian King <redacted>

Pointer iter is being initialized with a value that is never read and
is being re-assigned a little later on. The assignment is redundant
and hence can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>
---
  net/netlabel/netlabel_kapi.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
This patch doesn't seem correct to me, at least not in current form.
At the top of _netlbl_catmap_getnode() is a check to see if iter is
NULL (as well as a few other checks on iter after that); this patch
would break that code.

Perhaps we can get rid of the iter/catmap assignment when we define
iter, but I don't think this patch is the right way to do it.
quoted
diff --git a/net/netlabel/netlabel_kapi.c b/net/netlabel/netlabel_kapi.c
index 2b0ef55cf89e..409a3ae47ce2 100644
--- a/net/netlabel/netlabel_kapi.c
+++ b/net/netlabel/netlabel_kapi.c
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ static struct netlbl_lsm_catmap *_netlbl_catmap_getnode(
   */
  int netlbl_catmap_walk(struct netlbl_lsm_catmap *catmap, u32 offset)
  {
-       struct netlbl_lsm_catmap *iter = catmap;
+       struct netlbl_lsm_catmap *iter;
         u32 idx;
         u32 bit;
         NETLBL_CATMAP_MAPTYPE bitmap;
--
2.20.1
Hi,

'iter' is reassigned a value between the declaration and the NULL test, so removing the first initialization looks good to me.
int  netlbl_catmap_walk(struct  netlbl_lsm_catmap  *catmap,  u32  offset)
{
|

	struct  netlbl_lsm_catmap  *iter  =  catmap;
	u32  idx;
	u32  bit;
	NETLBL_CATMAP_MAPTYPE  bitmap;

	iter  =  _netlbl_catmap_getnode(&catmap,  offset,  _CM_F_WALK,  0);			<-- Here
	if  (iter  ==  NULL)
		return  -ENOENT; This is dead code since commit d960a6184a92 ("netlabel: fix the catmap walking functions") where the call to _netlbl_catmap_getnode has been introduced.

Just my 2c,

CJ|
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