drivers/net/xen-netfront.c: bogus code

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Sun Jul 22 2007 - 19:27:15 EST


The Coverity checker spotted the following bogus code
in drivers/net/xen-netfront.c:

<-- snip -->

...
static void xennet_alloc_rx_buffers(struct net_device *dev)
{
...
for (nr_flips = i = 0; ; i++) {
skb = __skb_dequeue(&np->rx_batch);
if (skb == NULL)
break;

skb->dev = dev;

id = xennet_rxidx(req_prod + i);

BUG_ON(np->rx_skbs[id]);
np->rx_skbs[id] = skb;

ref = gnttab_claim_grant_reference(&np->gref_rx_head);
BUG_ON((signed short)ref < 0);
np->grant_rx_ref[id] = ref;

pfn = page_to_pfn(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[0].page);
vaddr = page_address(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[0].page);

req = RING_GET_REQUEST(&np->rx, req_prod + i);
gnttab_grant_foreign_access_ref(ref,
np->xbdev->otherend_id,
pfn_to_mfn(pfn),
0);

req->id = id;
req->gref = ref;
}

if (nr_flips != 0) {
...

<-- snip -->

Note that "nr_flips" is always 0 in the last line.

cu
Adrian

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