linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][V2] sctp: remove redundant initialization of variable status

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Message-Id: <20200724.171035.1263967627297774729.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:10:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     vyasevich@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com,
        marcelo.leitner@...il.com, 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][V2] sctp: remove redundant initialization of variable
 status

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:09:19 +0100

> 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.  Also put the variable declarations into
> reverse christmas tree order.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
> ---
> 
> V2: put variable declarations into reverse christmas tree order.

Applied to net-next, thanks.