Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] sctp: remove redundant assignment when call sctp_get_port_local

From: Dan Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 21:57:10 +0300

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 03:13:42PM +0800, Mao Wenan wrote:
> There are more parentheses in if clause when call sctp_get_port_local
> in sctp_do_bind, and redundant assignment to 'ret'. This patch is to
> do cleanup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mao Wenan <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  net/sctp/socket.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
> index 9d1f83b10c0a..766b68b55ebe 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/socket.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
> @@ -399,9 +399,8 @@ static int sctp_do_bind(struct sock *sk, union sctp_addr *addr, int len)
>  	 * detection.
>  	 */
>  	addr->v4.sin_port = htons(snum);
> -	if ((ret = sctp_get_port_local(sk, addr))) {
> +	if (sctp_get_port_local(sk, addr))
>  		return -EADDRINUSE;

sctp_get_port_local() returns a long which is either 0,1 or a pointer
casted to long.  It's not documented what it means and neither of the
callers use the return since commit 62208f12451f ("net: sctp: simplify
sctp_get_port").

Probably it should just return a bool?

regards,
dan carpenter