[PATCH RFC] iw_cxgb4: drop check - dead code

From: Nicholas Mc Guire
Date: Sat Jan 19 2019 - 20:31:39 EST


The kmalloc is called with | __GFP_NOFAIL so there is no point in
checking the return value - it either returns valid storage or it would
hang/terminate there. But it is not possible to say if the use of
__GFP_NOFAIL is really needed and the check should be removed or
vice-versa (use of __GFP_NOFAIL should be only in exceptional
cases as I understand it and alloc_srq_queue() is called in quite
a few places)
In either way it would need fixing.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 6a0b6174d35a ("rdma/cxgb4: Add support for kernel mode SRQ's")
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Found during code review

Patch was compile tested with: x86_64_defconfig + INFINIBAND=y,
INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS=y, CHELSIO_T4=y, INFINIBAND_CXGB4=y
(with some unrelated sparse warnings)

Q:This also has an interesting dependency with no effect:
Depends on:... (INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS [=n] || !INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS [=n])
I assume htat INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS=y should be required here ?

Patch is against 5.0-rc2 (localversion-next is next-20190118)

drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c
index 917ce5c..c2a12ba 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c
@@ -2597,8 +2597,6 @@ static int alloc_srq_queue(struct c4iw_srq *srq, struct c4iw_dev_ucontext *uctx,
wr_len = sizeof(*res_wr) + sizeof(*res);

skb = alloc_skb(wr_len, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
- if (!skb)
- goto err_free_queue;
set_wr_txq(skb, CPL_PRIORITY_CONTROL, 0);

res_wr = (struct fw_ri_res_wr *)__skb_put(skb, wr_len);
--
2.1.4