linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/5] smack: Remove redundant assignments

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Message-Id: <20220331173358.40939-5-michalorzel.eng@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:33:58 +0200
From:   Michal Orzel <michalorzel.eng@...il.com>
To:     Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Michal Orzel <michalorzel.eng@...il.com>,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] smack: Remove redundant assignments

Get rid of redundant assignments which end up in values not being
read either because they are overwritten or the function ends.

Reported by clang-tidy [deadcode.DeadStores]

Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michalorzel.eng@...il.com>
---
 security/smack/smackfs.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/smack/smackfs.c b/security/smack/smackfs.c
index 658eab05599e..9e61014073cc 100644
--- a/security/smack/smackfs.c
+++ b/security/smack/smackfs.c
@@ -1192,7 +1192,6 @@ static ssize_t smk_write_net4addr(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 			rc = -EINVAL;
 			goto free_out;
 		}
-		m = BEBITS;
 		masks = 32;
 	}
 	if (masks > BEBITS) {
-- 
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