linux-kernel - [PATCH] mtd: mtdconcat: map: remove redundant assignment to variable 'size'

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Date:   Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:44:51 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mtd: mtdconcat: map: remove redundant assignment to variable 'size'

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

Variable 'size' is being assigned the value zero that will never be
read. The assignment is redundant and can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
index 242c3a660002..6e4d0017c0bd 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ concat_panic_write(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t to, size_t len,
 		size_t size, retsize;
 
 		if (to >= subdev->size) {
-			size = 0;
 			to -= subdev->size;
 			continue;
 		}
-- 
2.27.0