[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] vhost: remove unneeded null pointer check

Tiwei Bie tiwei.bie at intel.com
Wed Nov 7 10:01:02 CET 2018


The caller will guarantee that msg won't be null. Remove
the unneeded null pointer check which caused a Coverity
warning.

Coverity issue: 323484
Fixes: 8f972312b8f4 ("vhost: support vhost-user")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
index cc154f312..3ea64eba6 100644
--- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
+++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
@@ -1732,7 +1732,7 @@ read_vhost_message(int sockfd, struct VhostUserMsg *msg)
 	if (ret <= 0)
 		return ret;
 
-	if (msg && msg->size) {
+	if (msg->size) {
 		if (msg->size > sizeof(msg->payload)) {
 			RTE_LOG(ERR, VHOST_CONFIG,
 				"invalid msg size: %d\n", msg->size);
-- 
2.19.1



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