From 6fe2e70bbed3995d930f39452fb6ce3be7dc47dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jayachandran C Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:19:54 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [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. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/module.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 2ea929d51a..4b06bbad49 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); -- 2.39.5