linux-kernel - [PATCH] ipw2x00: remove redundant assignment to err

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Message-Id: <20190726100614.6924-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:06:14 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@...il.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ipw2x00: remove redundant assignment to err

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

Variable err is initialized to a value that is never read and it
is re-assigned later.  The initialization is redundant and can
be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c
index 75c0c29d81f0..8dfbaff2d1fe 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c
@@ -4413,7 +4413,7 @@ static void ipw2100_kill_works(struct ipw2100_priv *priv)
 
 static int ipw2100_tx_allocate(struct ipw2100_priv *priv)
 {
-	int i, j, err = -EINVAL;
+	int i, j, err;
 	void *v;
 	dma_addr_t p;
 
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