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

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Date:   Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:53:40 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] nexthops: remove redundant assignment to variable 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>
---
 net/ipv4/nexthop.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
index 5fe5a3981d43..fc34fd1668d6 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
@@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ static int nh_create_ipv4(struct net *net, struct nexthop *nh,
 		.fc_encap_type = cfg->nh_encap_type,
 	};
 	u32 tb_id = l3mdev_fib_table(cfg->dev);
-	int err = -EINVAL;
+	int err;
 
 	err = fib_nh_init(net, fib_nh, &fib_cfg, 1, extack);
 	if (err) {
-- 
2.20.1