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

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Message-Id: <20190728180407.15156-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date:   Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:04:07 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Mike Marshall <hubcap@...ibond.com>,
        Martin Brandenburg <martin@...ibond.com>,
        devel@...ts.orangefs.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] orangefs: 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>
---
 fs/orangefs/inode.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/orangefs/inode.c b/fs/orangefs/inode.c
index 0c337d8bdaab..efb12197da18 100644
--- a/fs/orangefs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/orangefs/inode.c
@@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ int orangefs_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *iattr)
 int orangefs_getattr(const struct path *path, struct kstat *stat,
 		     u32 request_mask, unsigned int flags)
 {
-	int ret = -ENOENT;
+	int ret;
 	struct inode *inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
 
 	gossip_debug(GOSSIP_INODE_DEBUG,
-- 
2.20.1