From: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:56:31 +0100

A local variable was set to an error code before a concrete error situation
was detected. Thus move the corresponding assignment into an if branch
to indicate a software failure there.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
---
 tools/perf/util/strlist.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/strlist.c b/tools/perf/util/strlist.c
index 0d3dfcb919b4..a934be385a6d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/strlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/strlist.c
@@ -118,9 +118,10 @@ static int strlist__parse_list_entry(struct strlist 
*slist, const char *s,
                return strlist__load(slist, s + 7);
 
        if (subst_dir) {
-               err = -ENOMEM;
-               if (asprintf(&subst, "%s/%s", subst_dir, s) < 0)
+               if (asprintf(&subst, "%s/%s", subst_dir, s) < 0) {
+                       err = -ENOMEM;
                        goto out;
+               }
 
                if (access(subst, F_OK) == 0) {
                        err = strlist__load(slist, subst);
-- 
2.11.0

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