It was added in commit 6c2e4c3856c8ed48c378bf1bf357cab46271a47a so that Coverity would not complain about passing -1 to qemuDomainDetachThisHostDevice(), but the function is question has changed since and so the annotation doesn't apply anymore. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c index 244dd5e..5247c06 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c @@ -5007,7 +5007,6 @@ qemuDomainDetachNetDevice(virQEMUDriverPtr driver, detach = vm->def->nets[detachidx]; if (virDomainNetGetActualType(detach) == VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_HOSTDEV) { - /* coverity[negative_returns] */ ret = qemuDomainDetachThisHostDevice(driver, vm, virDomainNetGetActualHostdev(detach)); goto cleanup; -- 2.7.5