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| author | Jayachandran C <c.jayachandran@gmail.com> | 2006-01-06 00:19:54 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-06 08:33:59 -0800 |
| commit | 6fe2e70bbed3995d930f39452fb6ce3be7dc47dc (patch) | |
| tree | b196b26fa0046c39bf072238463329dc66ccca82 | |
| parent | 066bb8d03b6e52e4844d37145573d6a2bedaa339 (diff) | |
| download | linux-6fe2e70bbed3995d930f39452fb6ce3be7dc47dc.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] kernel/module.c: removed dead code
This patch fixes an issue reported by Coverity in kernel/module.c
Error reported: Cannot reach this line of code "else return ptr;"
Patch description:
This is the error path, so 'err' will be negative, the else case
is not required, this patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C. <c.jayachandran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 2ea929d51ad0..4b06bbad49c2 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -1854,8 +1854,7 @@ static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, kfree(args); free_hdr: vfree(hdr); - if (err < 0) return ERR_PTR(err); - else return ptr; + return ERR_PTR(err); truncated: printk(KERN_ERR "Module len %lu truncated\n", len); |