linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: rtnetlink: remove redundant assignment to variable err

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Message-Id: <20200427.111428.371576843109032987.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:14:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: rtnetlink: remove redundant assignment to
 variable err

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:28:14 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The variable err is being initializeed with a value that is never read
> and it is being updated later with a new value. The initialization
> is redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied, thanks.