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Date:   Mon, 20 Feb 2023 16:30:50 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bnx2: remove deadcode in bnx2_init_cpus()
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To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
        Maxim Korotkov <korotkov.maxim.s@gmail.com>
Cc:     Rasesh Mody <rmody@marvell.com>, GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
        Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lvc-project@linuxtesting.org
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From:   Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
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On 20/02/2023 08:31, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 06:22:25PM +0300, Maxim Korotkov wrote:
>> The load_cpu_fw function has no error return code
>> and always returns zero. Checking the value returned by
>> this function does not make sense.
>> As a result, bnx2_init_cpus() will also return only zero
>> Therefore, it will be safe to change the type of functions
>> to void and remove checking
>>
>> Found by Security Code and Linux Verification
>> Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE
>>
>> Fixes: 57579f7629a3 ("bnx2: Use request_firmware()")
>> Signed-off-by: Maxim Korotkov <korotkov.maxim.s@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> changes v2:
>> - bnx2_init_cpu_fw() and bnx2_init_cpus() are void
>> - delete casts to void
>> - remove check of bnx2_init_cpus() in bnx2_init_chip()
>>
> 
> Thanks,
> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>

Not sure if it should go to -net, because it doesn't actually fix any
bug, more like refactoring which goes to -next, I believe.