From: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: rtnetlink: remove redundant assignment to variable err
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:28:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200425112814.137857-1-colin.king@canonical.com> (raw)
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
The variable err is being initializeed with a value that is never read
and it is being updated later with a new value. The initialization
is redundant and can be removed.
Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index d6f4f4a9e8ba..2269199c5891 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -3997,8 +3997,8 @@ static int rtnl_fdb_del(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
struct ndmsg *ndm;
struct nlattr *tb[NDA_MAX+1];
struct net_device *dev;
- int err = -EINVAL;
__u8 *addr;
+ int err;
u16 vid;
if (!netlink_capable(skb, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
--
2.25.1
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2020-04-27 18:14 ` David Miller
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