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

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Message-ID: <20210203230421.GA18404@salvia>
Date:   Thu, 4 Feb 2021 00:04:21 +0100
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     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, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_tables: remove redundant assignment of
 variable err

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 05:59:23PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> 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.

Applied to nf, thanks.