linux-kernel - Re: [patch] proc: cleanup: remove unused assignments

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Date:	Tue,  9 Mar 2010 12:25:28 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>,
	"Helight.Xu" <helight.xu@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [patch] proc: cleanup: remove unused assignments

> I removed 3 unused assignments.  The first two get reset on the first
> statement of their functions.  For "err" in root.c we don't return an 
> error and we don't use the variable again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

Looks good.
	Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>

> 
> diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
> index a731084..875d636 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/base.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/base.c
> @@ -2434,7 +2434,7 @@ static struct dentry *proc_base_instantiate(struct inode *dir,
>  	const struct pid_entry *p = ptr;
>  	struct inode *inode;
>  	struct proc_inode *ei;
> -	struct dentry *error = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +	struct dentry *error;
>  
>  	/* Allocate the inode */
>  	error = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> @@ -2784,7 +2784,7 @@ out:
>  
>  struct dentry *proc_pid_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry * dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
>  {
> -	struct dentry *result = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
> +	struct dentry *result;
>  	struct task_struct *task;
>  	unsigned tgid;
>  	struct pid_namespace *ns;
> diff --git a/fs/proc/root.c b/fs/proc/root.c
> index 757c069..4258384 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/root.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/root.c
> @@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ void __init proc_root_init(void)
>  	if (err)
>  		return;
>  	proc_mnt = kern_mount_data(&proc_fs_type, &init_pid_ns);
> -	err = PTR_ERR(proc_mnt);
>  	if (IS_ERR(proc_mnt)) {
>  		unregister_filesystem(&proc_fs_type);
>  		return;



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