linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipc/sem: Remove redundant assignments

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Date:   Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:19:25 +0200
From:   Michal Orzel <michalorzel.eng@...il.com>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipc/sem: Remove redundant assignments

Hi Nathan,

On 11.04.2022 17:47, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 12:19:31PM +0200, Michal Orzel wrote:
>> 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>
> 
> Thank you for the patch! This should go through Andrew Morton, now CC'd.
> 
> For the future, having some history behind the origin of these warnings
> would make review a little easier. I'll comment on each below.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> 
Thanks,
I will keep that in mind when sending other patches fixing static analyzer findings.

Cheers,
Michal