[PATCH] cif: fix dead code

Michael Opdenacker michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com
Tue Apr 15 02:13:18 MDT 2014


This issue was found by Coverity (CID 1202536)

This proposes a fix for a statement that creates dead code.
The "rc < 0" statement is within code that is run
with "rc > 0".

It seems like "err < 0" was meant to be used here.
This way, the error code is returned by the function.

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com>
---
 fs/cifs/file.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c
index 8add25538a3b..b6e78632fa97 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
@@ -2599,7 +2599,7 @@ cifs_writev(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 			ssize_t err;
 
 			err = generic_write_sync(file, iocb->ki_pos - rc, rc);
-			if (rc < 0)
+			if (err < 0)
 				rc = err;
 		}
 	} else {
-- 
1.8.3.2



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