linux-kernel - [PATCH] sctp: remove redundant initialization of variable status

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Date:   Fri, 24 Jul 2020 13:17:53 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] sctp: remove redundant initialization of variable status

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

The variable status is being initialized 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>
---
 net/sctp/protocol.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c
index 7ecaf7d575c0..a0448f7c64b9 100644
--- a/net/sctp/protocol.c
+++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c
@@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ static struct pernet_operations sctp_ctrlsock_ops = {
 static __init int sctp_init(void)
 {
 	int i;
-	int status = -EINVAL;
+	int status;
 	unsigned long goal;
 	unsigned long limit;
 	unsigned long nr_pages = totalram_pages();
-- 
2.27.0