[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/octeontx2: remove logically dead code
Jerin Jacob
jerinjacobk at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 20:14:36 CEST 2020
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 4:48 PM wangyunjian <wangyunjian at huawei.com> wrote:
>
> From: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian at huawei.com>
>
> Coverity issue: 357719
> Fixes: da138cd47e06 ("net/octeontx2: handle port reconfigure")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian at huawei.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/octeontx2/otx2_ethdev.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/octeontx2/otx2_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/octeontx2/otx2_ethdev.c
> index 33b72bd4d..3f9399cc8 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/octeontx2/otx2_ethdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/octeontx2/otx2_ethdev.c
> @@ -1355,8 +1355,6 @@ nix_store_queue_cfg_and_then_release(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev)
> fail:
See below
> if (tx_qconf)
> free(tx_qconf);
> - if (rx_qconf)
> - free(rx_qconf);
I think, it is clean and maintainable code have free() if rx_qconf as
if we add some another
exit error case in the future, we simply forget to add this check and
it will fail. So I prefer to keep
as-is for the sake of maintainability as there is no harm.
>
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
> --
> 2.23.0
>
>
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