[PATCH] netfilter: nf_tables: remove redundant assignment of variable err
From: Colin King <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-28 18:01:42
Also in:
kernel-janitors, lkml, netfilter-devel
Subsystem:
netfilter, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Pablo Neira Ayuso, Florian Westphal, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Colin Ian King <redacted>
The variable err is being assigned a value that is never read,
the same error number is being returned at the error return
path via label err1. Clean up the code by removing the assignment.
Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>
---
net/netfilter/nft_cmp.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_cmp.c b/net/netfilter/nft_cmp.c
index 00e563a72d3d..acbabffefebb 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_cmp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_cmp.c@@ -268,10 +268,8 @@ nft_cmp_select_ops(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, const struct nlattr * const tb[]) if (err < 0) return ERR_PTR(err); - if (desc.type != NFT_DATA_VALUE) { - err = -EINVAL; + if (desc.type != NFT_DATA_VALUE) goto err1; - } if (desc.len <= sizeof(u32) && (op == NFT_CMP_EQ || op == NFT_CMP_NEQ)) return &nft_cmp_fast_ops;
--
2.29.2