linux-kernel - [PATCH] tracing: remove a pointless assignment

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Message-Id: <20200930184303.22896-1-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:43:03 +0100
From:   Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-safety@...ts.elisa.tech,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: remove a pointless assignment

The variable 'len' has been assigned a value but is not used after that.
So, remove the assignement.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index d3c75aab44ad..e13cb3baeff0 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -6662,7 +6662,6 @@ tracing_mark_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
 		written = -EFAULT;
 	} else
 		written = cnt;
-	len = cnt;
 
 	if (tr->trace_marker_file && !list_empty(&tr->trace_marker_file->triggers)) {
 		/* do not add \n before testing triggers, but add \0 */
-- 
2.11.0