linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] staging: media: meson: remove redundant initialization of mpeg12

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Message-ID: <CAMO6naxDNmsqUVgAJ2uMBsQPUjsYK6zLhgubNfeEB-GEdD7sOw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:20:07 +0200
From:   Maxime Jourdan <mjourdan@...libre.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        linux-media@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org,
        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] staging: media: meson: remove redundant
 initialization of mpeg12

Hi Colin,
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 4:42 PM Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
>
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>
> The pointer mpeg12 is being initialized however that value is never
> read and mpeg12 is being re-assigned almost immediately afterwards.
> Remove the redundant initialization.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/codec_mpeg12.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/codec_mpeg12.c b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/codec_mpeg12.c
> index 5398fbf7ce20..48869cc3d973 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/codec_mpeg12.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/codec_mpeg12.c
> @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ static void codec_mpeg12_recycle(struct amvdec_core *core, u32 buf_idx)
>  static int codec_mpeg12_start(struct amvdec_session *sess)
>  {
>         struct amvdec_core *core = sess->core;
> -       struct codec_mpeg12 *mpeg12 = sess->priv;
> +       struct codec_mpeg12 *mpeg12;
>         int ret;
>
>         mpeg12 = kzalloc(sizeof(*mpeg12), GFP_KERNEL);
> --
> 2.20.1
>

Thank you for the patch.

Acked-by: Maxime Jourdan <mjourdan@...libre.com>