2021-05-27 17:10:14

by Maciej Fijalkowski

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Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] bpf: devmap: remove redundant assignment of variable drops

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 03:36:37PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
>
> The variable drops is being assigned a value that is never
> read, it is being updated later on. The assignment is redundant and
> can be removed.

Acked-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <[email protected]>

Would help if you would have CCed me given the fact that hour ago I
confirmed that it could be removed :p but no big deal.

Thanks!

>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
> ---
> kernel/bpf/devmap.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/devmap.c b/kernel/bpf/devmap.c
> index f9148daab0e3..fe3873b5d13d 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/devmap.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/devmap.c
> @@ -388,8 +388,6 @@ static void bq_xmit_all(struct xdp_dev_bulk_queue *bq, u32 flags)
> to_send = dev_map_bpf_prog_run(bq->xdp_prog, bq->q, cnt, dev);
> if (!to_send)
> goto out;
> -
> - drops = cnt - to_send;
> }
>
> sent = dev->netdev_ops->ndo_xdp_xmit(dev, to_send, bq->q, flags);
> --
> 2.31.1
>


2021-05-28 20:44:33

by Daniel Borkmann

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Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] bpf: devmap: remove redundant assignment of variable drops

On 5/27/21 4:55 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 03:36:37PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
>>
>> The variable drops is being assigned a value that is never
>> read, it is being updated later on. The assignment is redundant and
>> can be removed.
>
> Acked-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <[email protected]>
>
> Would help if you would have CCed me given the fact that hour ago I
> confirmed that it could be removed :p but no big deal.

Thanks guys, fyi, took in this one for bpf-next [0], since more unneeded
code removed.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git/commit/?id=e8e0f0f484780d7b90a63ea50020ac4bb027178d

>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> kernel/bpf/devmap.c | 2 --
>> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/devmap.c b/kernel/bpf/devmap.c
>> index f9148daab0e3..fe3873b5d13d 100644
>> --- a/kernel/bpf/devmap.c
>> +++ b/kernel/bpf/devmap.c
>> @@ -388,8 +388,6 @@ static void bq_xmit_all(struct xdp_dev_bulk_queue *bq, u32 flags)
>> to_send = dev_map_bpf_prog_run(bq->xdp_prog, bq->q, cnt, dev);
>> if (!to_send)
>> goto out;
>> -
>> - drops = cnt - to_send;
>> }
>>
>> sent = dev->netdev_ops->ndo_xdp_xmit(dev, to_send, bq->q, flags);
>> --
>> 2.31.1
>>