Re: [PATCH] netlabel: remove redundant assignment to pointer iter
From: Christophe JAILLET <hidden>
Date: 2019-09-01 17:20:29
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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)
{
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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|