[lvc-project] [PATCH 2/4] Remove redundant return value check

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 05:11:33PM +0300, Alexandra Diupina wrote:
> media_entity_pads_init() will not return 0 only if the
> 2nd parameter >= MEDIA_ENTITY_MAX_PADS (512), but 1 is
> passed, so checking the return value is redundant

That may be the case today, but may not be true tomorrow if the function
is extended to perform extra checks. I don't think dropping the error
check in drivers is a good idea.

> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
> 
> Fixes: 34009bffc1c6 ("media: i2c: Add RDACM20 driver")
> Signed-off-by: Alexandra Diupina <adiupina at astralinux.ru>
> ---
>  drivers/media/i2c/rdacm20.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/rdacm20.c b/drivers/media/i2c/rdacm20.c
> index f4e2e2f3972a..ed249ade54e0 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/i2c/rdacm20.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/rdacm20.c
> @@ -611,9 +611,7 @@ static int rdacm20_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
>  
>  	dev->pad.flags = MEDIA_PAD_FL_SOURCE;
>  	dev->sd.entity.function = MEDIA_ENT_F_CAM_SENSOR;
> -	ret = media_entity_pads_init(&dev->sd.entity, 1, &dev->pad);
> -	if (ret < 0)
> -		goto error_free_ctrls;
> +	media_entity_pads_init(&dev->sd.entity, 1, &dev->pad);
>  
>  	ret = v4l2_async_register_subdev(&dev->sd);
>  	if (ret)

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart