Commit 6fe2e70b authored Jan 06, 2006 by Jayachandran C Committed by Linus Torvalds Jan 06, 2006

[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>

parent 066bb8d0

kernel/module.c

+1 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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);

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