linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fat: remove redundant assignment of 0 to slots

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Date:   Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:32:52 +0900
From:   OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fat: remove redundant assignment of 0 to slots

Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> writes:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>
> The variable slots is being assigned a value of zero that is never
> read, slots is being updated again a few lines later. Remove this
> redundant assignment.
> Cleans clang warning: Value stored to 'slots' is never read
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Looks like good (if old gcc didn't have false positive warning).

Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>

> ---
>  fs/fat/dir.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/fat/dir.c b/fs/fat/dir.c
> index 81cecbe6d7cf..b833ffeee1e1 100644
> --- a/fs/fat/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/fat/dir.c
> @@ -291,7 +291,6 @@ static int fat_parse_long(struct inode *dir, loff_t *pos,
>  		}
>  	}
>  parse_long:
> -	slots = 0;
>  	ds = (struct msdos_dir_slot *)*de;
>  	id = ds->id;
>  	if (!(id & 0x40))

-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>