linux-kernel - [tip:x86/mm] x86/boot/e820: Remove a redundant self assignment

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Date:   Fri, 14 Apr 2017 02:45:55 -0700
From:   tip-bot for Colin King <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
        dvlasenk@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, colin.king@...onical.com
Subject: [tip:x86/mm] x86/boot/e820: Remove a redundant self assignment

Commit-ID:  ace2fb5a8b65d6aba530068ea9331f18e10ef565
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/ace2fb5a8b65d6aba530068ea9331f18e10ef565
Author:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:59:12 +0100
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 11:43:21 +0200

x86/boot/e820: Remove a redundant self assignment

Remove a redundant self assignment of table->nr_entries, it does
nothing and is an artifact of code simplification re-work.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1428450 ("Self assignment")

Fixes: 441ac2f33dd7 ("x86/boot/e820: Simplify e820__update_table()")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170413155912.12078-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
index 6e9b26f..d78a586 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -270,7 +270,6 @@ int __init e820__update_table(struct e820_table *table)
 	if (table->nr_entries < 2)
 		return -1;
 
-	table->nr_entries = table->nr_entries;
 	BUG_ON(table->nr_entries > max_nr_entries);
 
 	/* Bail out if we find any unreasonable addresses in the map: */