commit 6fe2e70bbed3995d930f39452fb6ce3be7dc47dc
author Jayachandran C <c.jayachandran@gmail.com> Fri Jan 06 00:19:54 2006 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> Fri Jan 06 08:33:59 2006 -0800
tree b196b26fa0046c39bf072238463329dc66ccca82
parent 066bb8d03b6e52e4844d37145573d6a2bedaa339

[PATCH] kernel/module.c: removed dead code

This patch fixes an issue reported by Coverity in kernel/module.c

Error reported: Cannot reach this line of code "else return ptr;"

Patch description:
  This is the error path, so 'err' will be negative, the else case
  is not required, this patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C. <c.jayachandran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

kernel/module.c

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 2ea929d..4b06bba 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1854,8 +1854,7 @@
 	kfree(args);
  free_hdr:
 	vfree(hdr);
-	if (err < 0) return ERR_PTR(err);
-	else return ptr;
+	return ERR_PTR(err);
 
  truncated:
 	printk(KERN_ERR "Module len %lu truncated\n", len);