linux-kernel - [PATCH] Delete invalid assignment statements in do

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Date:   Sun, 22 Jul 2018 16:37:08 +0800
From:   nixiaoming <nixiaoming@...wei.com>
To:     <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
CC:     <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <nixiaoming@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Delete invalid assignment statements in do_sendfile

Assigning value -EINVAL to "retval" here, but that stored value is
overwritten before it can be used.

retval = -EINVAL;
....
retval = rw_verify_area(WRITE, out.file, &out_pos, count);

value_overwrite: Overwriting previous write to "retval" with value
from rw_verify_area

delete invalid assignment statements

Signed-off-by: n00202754 <nixiaoming@...wei.com>
---
 fs/read_write.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 153f8f6..9ab202c 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -1407,7 +1407,6 @@ static ssize_t do_sendfile(int out_fd, int in_fd, loff_t *ppos,
 		goto fput_in;
 	if (!(out.file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
 		goto fput_out;
-	retval = -EINVAL;
 	in_inode = file_inode(in.file);
 	out_inode = file_inode(out.file);
 	out_pos = out.file->f_pos;
-- 
2.10.1