Re: [PATCH][next] RDMA/nes: remove redundant check on udata

From: Colin Ian King
Date: Thu Mar 07 2019 - 05:23:35 EST


On 04/03/2019 06:36, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 11:06:36PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The non-null check on udata is redundant as this check was performed
>> just a few statements earlier and the check is always true as udata
>> must be non-null at this point. Remove redundant the check on udata
>> and the redundant else part that can never be executed.
>>
>> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1477317 ("Logically dead code")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c | 73 +++++++++++++--------------
>> 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c
>> index 828e4af3f951..526092d435df 100644
>> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c
>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c
>> @@ -1039,53 +1039,48 @@ static struct ib_qp *nes_create_qp(struct ib_pd *ibpd,
>> }
>> if (req.user_qp_buffer)
>> nesqp->nesuqp_addr = req.user_qp_buffer;
>> - if (udata) {
>> - nesqp->user_mode = 1;
>
> It was single place where user_mode was set, you should continue and
> remove all code which depends on "if (nesqp->user_mode)".

This is not the only place where user_mode is being set; we currently have:


if (udata) {
if (ib_copy_from_udata(&req, udata, sizeof(struct
nes_create_qp_req))) {
nes_free_resource(nesadapter,
nesadapter->allocated_qps, qp_num);
kfree(nesqp->allocated_buffer);
nes_debug(NES_DBG_QP, "ib_copy_from_udata()
Failed \n");
return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
}
if (req.user_wqe_buffers) {
virt_wqs = 1;
}
if (req.user_qp_buffer)
nesqp->nesuqp_addr = req.user_qp_buffer;
if (udata) {
nesqp->user_mode = 1;
...


and I'm just removing the redudant 2nd if (udata) check, so the
nesqp->user_mode = 1 assignment is still being kept hence it's not
correct to remove all the if (nesqp->user_mode) releated code.


>
> I looked on the change which triggered Coverity warning and looks like
> your commit message should include this Fixes line:
> Fixes: 899444505473 ("IB/{hw,sw}: Remove 'uobject->context' dependency in object creation APIs")

Can that be added to the patch before it's applied?

>
> Thanks
>

Colin

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