linux-kernel - [PATCH][next] ext4: remove redundant assignment of variable ex

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Message-Id: <20201021132326.148052-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:23:26 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][next] ext4: remove redundant assignment of variable ex

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

Variable ex is assigned a variable that is not being read, the assignment
is redundant and can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 fs/ext4/extents.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 6b33b9c86b00..80fac488769c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -5993,7 +5993,6 @@ int ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks(struct inode *inode)
 			kfree(path);
 			break;
 		}
-		ex = path2[path2->p_depth].p_ext;
 		for (i = 0; i <= max(path->p_depth, path2->p_depth); i++) {
 			cmp1 = cmp2 = 0;
 			if (i <= path->p_depth)
-- 
2.27.0