Re: [PATCH v2] net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw-nuss: remove dead vid check in slave_add_vid()

Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.kernel-janitors,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-omap,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le 17/05/2026 à 17:16, Alexander Vassilevski a écrit :
> am65_cpsw_nuss_ndo_slave_add_vid() returns early at the top with:
> 
>      if (!netif_running(ndev) || !vid)
>          return 0;
> 
> so vid is guaranteed to be non-zero in the rest of the function. The
> subsequent
> 
>      if (!vid)
>          unreg_mcast = port_mask;
> 
> is therefore unreachable. Drop the dead branch.
> 
> With that branch gone, unreg_mcast is only ever its initializer value
> of zero, so drop the variable and pass 0 directly to
> cpsw_ale_vlan_add_modify().
> 
> No functional change.
> 
> Found by Smatch.
> 
> Fixes: 7bcffde02152 ("net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw-nuss: restore vlan configuration while down/up")
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/[email protected]/
> Suggested-by: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>

Appreciated, but not really needed. I just made a comment about a tiny 
possible improvement.

> Reviewed-by: Siddharth Vadapalli <[email protected]>

This should be placed after Signed-off-by:

> Signed-off-by: Alexander Vassilevski <[email protected]>
> ---
> I agree, Christophe.

This part could be more descriptive.
You could for example have:

Changes in v2:
    - remove unreg_mcast which is now unneeded.

> 
>   drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-nuss.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-nuss.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-nuss.c
> index 77f59996a0..434a310808 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-nuss.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-nuss.c
> @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ static int am65_cpsw_nuss_ndo_slave_add_vid(struct net_device *ndev,
>   {
>   	struct am65_cpsw_common *common = am65_ndev_to_common(ndev);
>   	struct am65_cpsw_port *port = am65_ndev_to_port(ndev);
> -	u32 port_mask, unreg_mcast = 0;
> +	u32 port_mask;
>   	int ret;
>   
>   	if (!common->is_emac_mode)
> @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ static int am65_cpsw_nuss_ndo_slave_add_vid(struct net_device *ndev,
>   	port_mask = BIT(port->port_id) | ALE_PORT_HOST;
>   	dev_info(common->dev, "Adding vlan %d to vlan filter\n", vid);
>   	ret = cpsw_ale_vlan_add_modify(common->ale, vid, port_mask,
> -				       unreg_mcast, port_mask, 0);
> +				       0, port_mask, 0);
>   
>   	pm_runtime_put(common->dev);
>   	return ret;

Patches don't work like that.

When you send a v2, it supersedes the previous v1.
So your dead-code removal, should also be included in the v2.
Otherwise, it is impossible for maintainers to know what to apply.

So, you should send a new cumulative version, as a v3.

CJ
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