Re: [PATCH][next] net: bridge: Fix missing return assignment from br_vlan_replay_one call

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov
Date: Wed Mar 24 2021 - 14:51:26 EST


On 24/03/2021 17:09, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The call to br_vlan_replay_one is returning an error return value but
> this is not being assigned to err and the following check on err is
> currently always false because err was initialized to zero. Fix this
> by assigning err.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("'Constant' variable guards dead code")
> Fixes: 22f67cdfae6a ("net: bridge: add helper to replay VLANs installed on port")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/bridge/br_vlan.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_vlan.c b/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
> index ca8daccff217..7422691230b1 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
> @@ -1815,7 +1815,7 @@ int br_vlan_replay(struct net_device *br_dev, struct net_device *dev,
> if (!br_vlan_should_use(v))
> continue;
>
> - br_vlan_replay_one(nb, dev, &vlan, extack);
> + err = br_vlan_replay_one(nb, dev, &vlan, extack);
> if (err)
> return err;
> }
>

Thanks,
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxx>