Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] ixgbe: fix comparison of offset with zero or NVM_INVALID_PTR

From: Jeff Kirsher <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:52:34 -0800

On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 17:13 +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <[email-masked]>
> 
> The incorrect operator && is being used and will always return false
> as offset can never be two different values at the same time. Fix
> this
> by using the || operator instead.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1463806 ("Logically dead code")
> 
> Fixes: 73834aec7199 ("ixgbe: extend firmware version support")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Dan Carpenter beat you too it, see his patch in my tree:

commit 7352baadcc2ad2ed214e52bd8b50ac6eb01968cd
Author: Dan Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Date:   Fri Jan 12 09:45:00 2018 -0800

    ixgbe: Fix && vs || typo
    
    "offset" can't be both 0x0 and 0xFFFF so presumably || was intended
    instead of &&.  That matches with how this check is done in other
    functions.
    
    Fixes: 73834aec7199 ("ixgbe: extend firmware version support")
    Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email-masked]>