netdev - [PATCH][next] bpf: devmap: remove redundant assignment of dev = dev

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Date:   Wed, 30 May 2018 16:09:16 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][next] bpf: devmap: remove redundant assignment of dev = dev

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

The assignment dev = dev is redundant and should be removed.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1469486 ("Evaluation order violation")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 kernel/bpf/devmap.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/devmap.c b/kernel/bpf/devmap.c
index ae16d0c373ef..1fe3fe60508a 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/devmap.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/devmap.c
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ int dev_map_enqueue(struct bpf_dtab_netdev *dst, struct xdp_buff *xdp,
 static void *dev_map_lookup_elem(struct bpf_map *map, void *key)
 {
 	struct bpf_dtab_netdev *obj = __dev_map_lookup_elem(map, *(u32 *)key);
-	struct net_device *dev = dev = obj ? obj->dev : NULL;
+	struct net_device *dev = obj ? obj->dev : NULL;
 
 	return dev ? &dev->ifindex : NULL;
 }
-- 
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