Re: [PATCH][next] bpf: devmap: remove redundant assignment of dev = dev

From: Song Liu
Date: Wed May 30 2018 - 13:18:49 EST


On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 8:09 AM, Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The assignment dev = dev is redundant and should be removed.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1469486 ("Evaluation order violation")
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>

> ---
> kernel/bpf/devmap.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/devmap.c b/kernel/bpf/devmap.c
> index ae16d0c373ef..1fe3fe60508a 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/devmap.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/devmap.c
> @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ int dev_map_enqueue(struct bpf_dtab_netdev *dst, struct xdp_buff *xdp,
> static void *dev_map_lookup_elem(struct bpf_map *map, void *key)
> {
> struct bpf_dtab_netdev *obj = __dev_map_lookup_elem(map, *(u32 *)key);
> - struct net_device *dev = dev = obj ? obj->dev : NULL;
> + struct net_device *dev = obj ? obj->dev : NULL;
>
> return dev ? &dev->ifindex : NULL;
> }
> --
> 2.17.0
>