Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756112AbdIHNRK (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2017 09:17:10 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:58259 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755013AbdIHNRI (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2017 09:17:08 -0400 From: Colin King To: Eric Anholt , David Airlie , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] drm/vc4: clean up error handling on devm_kzalloc failure Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 14:17:04 +0100 Message-Id: <20170908131704.32517-1-colin.king@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.14.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1595 Lines: 51 From: Colin Ian King The current error handling on devm_kzalloc failures performs a non-null check on connector. Thss check is redundant because connector is null at that failure point. With this check removed, we may as well make the failure path into a trivial -ENOMEM return to clean up the error handling. Detected by CoverityScan CID#1339527 ("Logically dead code") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King --- drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hdmi.c | 13 ++----------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hdmi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hdmi.c index 937da8dd65b8..a8808c1a1e03 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hdmi.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hdmi.c @@ -311,14 +311,11 @@ static struct drm_connector *vc4_hdmi_connector_init(struct drm_device *dev, { struct drm_connector *connector = NULL; struct vc4_hdmi_connector *hdmi_connector; - int ret = 0; hdmi_connector = devm_kzalloc(dev->dev, sizeof(*hdmi_connector), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!hdmi_connector) { - ret = -ENOMEM; - goto fail; - } + if (!hdmi_connector) + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); connector = &hdmi_connector->base; hdmi_connector->encoder = encoder; @@ -336,12 +333,6 @@ static struct drm_connector *vc4_hdmi_connector_init(struct drm_device *dev, drm_mode_connector_attach_encoder(connector, encoder); return connector; - - fail: - if (connector) - vc4_hdmi_connector_destroy(connector); - - return ERR_PTR(ret); } static void vc4_hdmi_encoder_destroy(struct drm_encoder *encoder) -- 2.14.1