2006-09-24 22:52:01

by Eric Sesterhenn

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Subject: [Patch] remove unnessecairy check in drivers/scsi/sg.c

hi,

coverity spotted this (cid #758). All callers dereference sfp,
so we dont need this check. In addition to this, we dereference
it earlier in the function.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <[email protected]>

--- linux-2.6.18-git3/drivers/scsi/sg.c.orig 2006-09-24 22:11:36.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18-git3/drivers/scsi/sg.c 2006-09-24 22:12:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -1828,7 +1828,7 @@ sg_build_indirect(Sg_scatter_hold * schp
int blk_size = buff_size;
struct page *p = NULL;

- if ((blk_size < 0) || (!sfp))
+ if (blk_size < 0)
return -EFAULT;
if (0 == blk_size)
++blk_size; /* don't know why */