linux-kernel - [PATCH] cpufreq: remove redundant assignment to ret

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Message-Id: <20190813122121.28160-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date:   Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:21:21 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] cpufreq: remove redundant assignment to ret

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

Variable ret 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/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index c28ebf2810f1..26d82e0a2de5 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -2140,7 +2140,7 @@ int cpufreq_driver_target(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
 			  unsigned int target_freq,
 			  unsigned int relation)
 {
-	int ret = -EINVAL;
+	int ret;
 
 	down_write(&policy->rwsem);
 
-- 
2.20.1