From: "Jayachandran C." 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. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/module.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/module.c~kernel-modulec-removed-dead-code kernel/module.c --- devel/kernel/module.c~kernel-modulec-removed-dead-code 2005-12-22 05:09:44.000000000 -0800 +++ devel-akpm/kernel/module.c 2005-12-22 05:09:44.000000000 -0800 @@ -1898,8 +1898,7 @@ static struct module *load_module(void _ 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); _