[dm-devel] dm crypt: remove an impossible condition

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Sat Mar 18 04:14:22 UTC 2017


On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 05:38:19PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17 2017 at  4:46pm -0400,
> Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > Static checkers complain that it doesn't make sense to check if "sval"
> > is NULL.  The intention was to check if strchr() returned NULL, but in
> > that situation "sval" would be "NULL + 1" so the check doesn't work.  We
> > know from the sscanf() that there is a ':' character in the string so
> > the check is unnecessary and can be removed.
> > 
> > Now that the check doesn't depend on "sval" it can be moved earlier
> > for readability.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
> 
> Thanks Dan, I've folded this fix into the original commit, see:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-4.12&id=cf22cd5f3afe7335afee5659f7450000e8fa2a15
> 
> I didn't add your Signed-off-by though, I can backfill that if you
> like.. it is just I didn't want to taint you with all the extensive
> changes in that commit.

That's fine, thanks.  Sign-off isn't really the appropriate tag anyway...

regards,
dan carpenter




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