[EXT] Re: [PATCH] lib: fix coverity for unused variable

[Thomas Monjalon]

27/06/2023 18:05, Amit Prakash Shukla:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Please find my reply inline.
> 
> Thanks,
> Amit Shukla
> 
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> > From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2023 7:15 PM
> > To: Amit Prakash Shukla <amitprakashs at marvell.com>
> > Cc: Nithin Kumar Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram at marvell.com>; Pavan Nikhilesh
> > Bhagavatula <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>; dev at dpdk.org; Jerin Jacob
> > Kollanukkaran <jerinj at marvell.com>
> > Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] lib: fix coverity for unused variable
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> > 16/06/2023 13:06, Amit Prakash Shukla:
> > > Removed variable "rc" that stored a return value from a function
> > > rte_lpm6_lookup_bulk_func.
> > 
> > You are not really removing the variable, right?
> > It looks you just stop storing the return of this function.
> > Whouldn't it better to check the return code?
> 
> Yes, I am just not storing the return value. The reason to not
> store return code is to avoid return code check in datapath.
> rte_lpm6_lookup_bulk_func will return error only if
>  lpm6, ip_batch, next_hop are NULL. In function ip6_lookup_node_process_scalar
> these variables will never be NULL.

I will update the commit message accordingly.