linux-kernel - [PATCH] kdb: remove unnecessary variable assignment in kdb

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Date:   Thu, 22 Jun 2017 17:41:23 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
To:     Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
Cc:     kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kdb: remove unnecessary variable assignment in kdb_bc()

Value assigned to variable _bp_ at line 415 is the same as at line 434.
This makes such variable assignment unnecessary.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1227025
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
---
 kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bp.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bp.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bp.c
index 90ff129..039a329e 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bp.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bp.c
@@ -412,7 +412,6 @@ static int kdb_bc(int argc, const char **argv)
 		 * assume that the breakpoint number is desired.
 		 */
 		if (addr < KDB_MAXBPT) {
-			bp = &kdb_breakpoints[addr];
 			lowbp = highbp = addr;
 			highbp++;
 		} else {
-- 
2.5.0