linux-kernel - [PATCH] ipv6: fib6: remove redundant initialization of variable err

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Message-Id: <20210613134636.74416-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date:   Sun, 13 Jun 2021 14:46:36 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: fib6: remove redundant initialization of variable err

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

The variable err is being initialized with a value that is never read, the
assignment is redundant and can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c b/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c
index 8f9a83314de7..40f3e4f9f33a 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ static const struct fib_rules_ops __net_initconst fib6_rules_ops_template = {
 static int __net_init fib6_rules_net_init(struct net *net)
 {
 	struct fib_rules_ops *ops;
-	int err = -ENOMEM;
+	int err;
 
 	ops = fib_rules_register(&fib6_rules_ops_template, net);
 	if (IS_ERR(ops))
-- 
2.31.1