linux-kernel - [PATCH] netfilter: nf_tables: remove redundant assignment of variable err

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Date:   Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:59:23 +0000
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_tables: remove redundant assignment of variable err

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

The variable err is being assigned a value that is never read,
the same error number is being returned at the error return
path via label err1.  Clean up the code by removing the assignment.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nft_cmp.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_cmp.c b/net/netfilter/nft_cmp.c
index 00e563a72d3d..acbabffefebb 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_cmp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_cmp.c
@@ -268,10 +268,8 @@ nft_cmp_select_ops(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, const struct nlattr * const tb[])
 	if (err < 0)
 		return ERR_PTR(err);
 
-	if (desc.type != NFT_DATA_VALUE) {
-		err = -EINVAL;
+	if (desc.type != NFT_DATA_VALUE)
 		goto err1;
-	}
 
 	if (desc.len <= sizeof(u32) && (op == NFT_CMP_EQ || op == NFT_CMP_NEQ))
 		return &nft_cmp_fast_ops;
-- 
2.29.2