linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IB/hfi1: Remove redundant variable rcd

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Date:   Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:19:05 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To:     Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     mike.marciniszyn@...nelisnetworks.com,
        dennis.dalessandro@...nelisnetworks.com, dledford@...hat.com,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/hfi1: Remove redundant variable rcd

On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 06:31:36PM +0800, Jiapeng Chong wrote:
> Variable rcd is being assigned a value from a calculation
> however the variable is never read, so this redundant variable
> can be removed.
> 
> Cleans up the following clang-analyzer warning:
> 
> drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/affinity.c:986:3: warning: Value stored to
> 'rcd' is never read [clang-analyzer-deadcode.DeadStores].
> 
> Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/affinity.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Applied to for-next, though I also moved the rcd variable into the
only scope that used it.

Jason