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Message-ID: <20200724125514.GD3399@localhost.localdomain>
Date:   Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:55:14 -0300
From:   Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: remove redundant initialization of variable status

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 01:17:53PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> 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>

Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>

Are you willing to send another to patch to fix the var ordering in
reverse christmass tree in there?

> ---
>  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
> 

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