linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched/cputime: Remove unnecessary assignment statement

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Date:   Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:47:33 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Ketan Patil <ketanp@...dia.com>
Cc:     mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, snikam@...dia.com,
        bnihalani@...dia.com, byan@...dia.com, sgurrappadi@...dia.com,
        treding@...dia.com, talho@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/cputime: Remove unnecessary assignment statement


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On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 03:12:13PM +0530, Ketan Patil wrote:
> The coverity tool has detected this issue as an unused value, since
> the code assigns the value to utime variable and then after the jump, the
> value of utime again gets updated, hence the previous value is not at all
> useful and this patch removes that first assignment.

Not a security issue then; just tell coverity to shut up.