[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/octeontx2: remove logically dead code
wangyunjian
wangyunjian at huawei.com
Wed Sep 30 12:34:35 CEST 2020
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerin Jacob [mailto:jerinjacobk at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 2:15 AM
> To: wangyunjian <wangyunjian at huawei.com>
> Cc: dpdk-dev <dev at dpdk.org>; Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>; Nithin
> Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram at marvell.com>; Kiran Kumar K
> <kirankumark at marvell.com>; Lilijun (Jerry) <jerry.lilijun at huawei.com>;
> xudingke <xudingke at huawei.com>; dpdk stable <stable at dpdk.org>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/octeontx2: remove logically dead code
>
> 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.
Hi, Jerin
Thanks for your explanation.
According to Stephen's suggestion, is it need to remove unnecessary NULL check?
Thanks,
Yunjian
>
>
> >
> > return -ENOMEM;
> > }
> > --
> > 2.23.0
> >
> >
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