linux-kernel - [PATCH] printk: remove obsolete dead assignment

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Date:   Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:49:15 +0100
From:   Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-safety@...ts.elisa.tech,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] printk: remove obsolete dead assignment

Commit 849f3127bb46 ("switch /dev/kmsg to ->write_iter()") refactored
devkmsg_write() and left over a dead assignment on the variable 'len'.

Hence, make clang-analyzer warns:

  kernel/printk/printk.c:744:4: warning: Value stored to 'len' is never read
    [clang-analyzer-deadcode.DeadStores]
                          len -= endp - line;
                          ^

Simply remove this obsolete dead assignment here.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
---
applies cleanly on current master and next-20201130

Petr, please pick this minor non-urgent clean-up patch.

 kernel/printk/printk.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index f279d4fbd9dd..6e4e38b7cd91 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -741,7 +741,6 @@ static ssize_t devkmsg_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
 			if (LOG_FACILITY(u) != 0)
 				facility = LOG_FACILITY(u);
 			endp++;
-			len -= endp - line;
 			line = endp;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.17.1