[infiniband-hw-i40iw] question about identical code for different branches

[Gustavo A. R. Silva]

Hello everybody,

While looking into Coverity ID 1362263 I ran into the following piece  
of code at drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_virtchnl.c:445:

445        if (vchnl_msg->iw_op_code == I40IW_VCHNL_OP_GET_VER) {
446                if (vchnl_msg->iw_op_ver != I40IW_VCHNL_OP_GET_VER_V0)
447                        vchnl_pf_send_get_ver_resp(dev, vf_id, vchnl_msg);
448                else
449                        vchnl_pf_send_get_ver_resp(dev, vf_id, vchnl_msg);
450                return I40IW_SUCCESS;
451        }

The issue is that lines of code 447 and 449 are identical for  
different branches.

My question here is if one of the branches should be modified, or the  
entire _if_ statement replaced?

Maybe a patch like the following could be applied:

index f4d1368..48fd327 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_virtchnl.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_virtchnl.c
@@ -443,10 +443,7 @@ enum i40iw_status_code i40iw_vchnl_recv_pf(struct  
i40iw_sc_dev *dev,
        if (!dev->vchnl_up)
                return I40IW_ERR_NOT_READY;
        if (vchnl_msg->iw_op_code == I40IW_VCHNL_OP_GET_VER) {
-               if (vchnl_msg->iw_op_ver != I40IW_VCHNL_OP_GET_VER_V0)
-                       vchnl_pf_send_get_ver_resp(dev, vf_id, vchnl_msg);
-               else
-                       vchnl_pf_send_get_ver_resp(dev, vf_id, vchnl_msg);
+               vchnl_pf_send_get_ver_resp(dev, vf_id, vchnl_msg);
                return I40IW_SUCCESS;
        }
        for (iw_vf_idx = 0; iw_vf_idx <  
I40IW_MAX_PE_ENABLED_VF_COUNT; iw_vf_idx++) {

What do you think?

I'd really appreciate any comment on this.

Thank you!
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Gustavo A. R. Silva