Patch "IB/core: Avoid unnecessary return value check" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

IB/core: Avoid unnecessary return value check

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
ib-core-avoid-unnecessary-return-value-check.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Parav Pandit <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 15:22:27 +0200
Subject: IB/core: Avoid unnecessary return value check

From: Parav Pandit <[email protected]>

commit 2e4c85c6edc80fa532b2c7e1eb3597ef4d4bbb8f upstream.

Since there is nothing done with non zero return value, such check is avoided.

---
 drivers/infiniband/core/security.c |   15 ++++-----------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

@@ -697,20 +697,13 @@ void ib_mad_agent_security_cleanup(struc
 
 int ib_mad_enforce_security(struct ib_mad_agent_private *map, u16 pkey_index)
 {
-	int ret;
-
 	if (map->agent.qp->qp_type == IB_QPT_SMI && !map->agent.smp_allowed)
 		return -EACCES;
 
-	ret = ib_security_pkey_access(map->agent.device,
-				      map->agent.port_num,
-				      pkey_index,
-				      map->agent.security);
-
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-
-	return 0;
+	return ib_security_pkey_access(map->agent.device,
+				       map->agent.port_num,
+				       pkey_index,
+				       map->agent.security);
 }
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_SECURITY_INFINIBAND */

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/ib-core-avoid-unnecessary-return-value-check.patch queue-4.14/ib-core-only-enforce-security-for-infiniband.patch