linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fscrypt: remove redundant assignment of res

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Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 23:26:10 -0500
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fscrypt: remove redundant assignment of res

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 04:57:32PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> res is assigned to sizeof(ctx), however, this is unused and res
> is updated later on without that assigned value to res ever being
> used.  Remove this redundant assignment.
> 
> Fixes CoverityScan CID#1395546 "Unused value"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted