linux-kernel - [RESEND PATCH 06/11] soundwire: bus: remove useless initialization

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Message-Id: <20210326091514.20751-7-yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:15:09 +0800
From:   Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@...ux.intel.com>
To:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org, vkoul@...nel.org
Cc:     vinod.koul@...aro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org,
        rander.wang@...ux.intel.com, hui.wang@...onical.com,
        pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com, sanyog.r.kale@...el.com,
        bard.liao@...el.com
Subject: [RESEND PATCH 06/11] soundwire: bus: remove useless initialization

From: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>

Cppcheck complains about a possible null pointer dereference, but it's
more like there is an unnecessary initialization before walking
through a list.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <guennadi.liakhovetski@...ux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rander Wang <rander.wang@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@...ux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/soundwire/bus.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soundwire/bus.c b/drivers/soundwire/bus.c
index a38b017f7a54..1a9e307e6a4c 100644
--- a/drivers/soundwire/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/soundwire/bus.c
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sdw_write);
 /* called with bus_lock held */
 static struct sdw_slave *sdw_get_slave(struct sdw_bus *bus, int i)
 {
-	struct sdw_slave *slave = NULL;
+	struct sdw_slave *slave;
 
 	list_for_each_entry(slave, &bus->slaves, node) {
 		if (slave->dev_num == i)
-- 
2.17.1