linux-kernel - [PATCH] tracing: remove redundant assignment to pointer 'event'

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Message-Id: <20190617123722.27376-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date:   Mon, 17 Jun 2019 13:37:22 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: remove redundant assignment to pointer 'event'

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

The value assigned to pointer 'event' is never read and hence it
is redundant and can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index ca6b0dff60c5..0013b43d8b4d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -1294,7 +1294,6 @@ static int __create_synth_event(int argc, const char *name, const char **argv)
 	event = alloc_synth_event(name, n_fields, fields);
 	if (IS_ERR(event)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(event);
-		event = NULL;
 		goto err;
 	}
 	ret = register_synth_event(event);
-- 
2.20.1