linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] edac: pnd2_edac: remove useless variable assignment

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Message-ID: <20170622193010.GA14399@embeddedgus>
Date:   Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:30:10 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
To:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] edac: pnd2_edac: remove useless variable assignment

Value assigned to variable _ret_ at line 176 is overwritten
a few lines below before it can be used. This makes such
variable assignment useless.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1403730
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
---
 drivers/edac/pnd2_edac.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/edac/pnd2_edac.c b/drivers/edac/pnd2_edac.c
index c51ec73..d1de53e 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/pnd2_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/pnd2_edac.c
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ static int apl_rd_reg(int port, int off, int op, void *data, size_t sz, char *na
 	edac_dbg(2, "Read %s port=%x off=%x op=%x\n", name, port, off, op);
 	switch (sz) {
 	case 8:
-		ret = sbi_send(port, off + 4, op, (u32 *)(data + 4));
+		sbi_send(port, off + 4, op, (u32 *)(data + 4));
 		/* fall through */
 	case 4:
 		ret = sbi_send(port, off, op, (u32 *)data);
-- 
2.5.0