[PATCH] net: sched: cls_api: fix dead code in switch

Code at line 1850 is unreachable. Fix this by removing the break
statement above it, so the code for case RTM_GETCHAIN can be
properly executed.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1472050 ("Structurally dead code")
Fixes: 32a4f5ecd738 ("net: sched: introduce chain object to uapi")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <redacted>
---
 net/sched/cls_api.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/cls_api.c b/net/sched/cls_api.c
index 5f7098b..f3d78c2 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c

@@ -1846,7 +1846,6 @@ static int tc_ctl_chain(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *n,
 		tcf_chain_put_explicitly_created(chain);
 		break;
 	case RTM_GETCHAIN:
-		break;
 		err = tc_chain_notify(chain, skb, n->nlmsg_seq,
 				      n->nlmsg_seq, n->nlmsg_type, true);
 		if (err < 0)

-- 
2.7.4

Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 04:07:24PM CEST, gustavo@embeddedor.com wrote:

Code at line 1850 is unreachable. Fix this by removing the break
statement above it, so the code for case RTM_GETCHAIN can be
properly executed.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1472050 ("Structurally dead code")
Fixes: 32a4f5ecd738 ("net: sched: introduce chain object to uapi")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <redacted>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <redacted>

I'm just writing a selftest to test this path. Thanks.

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <redacted>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:07:24 -0500

Code at line 1850 is unreachable. Fix this by removing the break
statement above it, so the code for case RTM_GETCHAIN can be
properly executed.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1472050 ("Structurally dead code")
Fixes: 32a4f5ecd738 ("net: sched: introduce chain object to uapi")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <redacted>

Applied, thanks.

Please use "[PATCH net-next] ..." in your subject lines to indirect
the tree that this change is relevant for and targetted to.

Thank you.

On 07/26/2018 04:10 PM, David Miller wrote:

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <redacted>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:07:24 -0500

quoted

Code at line 1850 is unreachable. Fix this by removing the break
statement above it, so the code for case RTM_GETCHAIN can be
properly executed.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1472050 ("Structurally dead code")
Fixes: 32a4f5ecd738 ("net: sched: introduce chain object to uapi")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <redacted>

Applied, thanks.

Please use "[PATCH net-next] ..." in your subject lines to indirect
the tree that this change is relevant for and targetted to.

Got it. Will do next time.

Thanks
--
Gustavo