linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] EDAC, sb_edac: remove redundant update of tad

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Date:   Wed, 8 May 2019 15:48:07 -0700
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@...el.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC, sb_edac: remove redundant update of tad_base

On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 11:42:01PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The variable tad_base is being set to a value that is never read
> and is being over-written on the next iteration of a for-loop.
> This assignment is therefore redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/edac/sb_edac.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c b/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c
> index 9353c3fc7c05..6aa4b1b73a15 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c
> +++ b/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c
> @@ -1513,7 +1513,6 @@ static int knl_get_dimm_capacity(struct sbridge_pvt *pvt, u64 *mc_sizes)
>  						sad_actual_size[mc] += tad_size;
>  					}
>  				}
> -				tad_base = tad_limit+1;
>  			}
>  		}
>  

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>