linux-kernel - [PATCH] ufs: Remove redundant assignment to pointer p

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Date:   Mon, 10 Oct 2022 21:47:43 +0100
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
To:     Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@...l.ru>
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ufs: Remove redundant assignment to pointer p

The pointer p is being assigned a new value that is never read. The
assignment is redundant and can be removed.

Cleans up clang scan-build warning:
fs/ufs/dir.c:179:2: warning: Value stored to 'p' is never read
[deadcode.DeadStores]

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
---
 fs/ufs/dir.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ufs/dir.c b/fs/ufs/dir.c
index 391efaf1d528..bf19cd882965 100644
--- a/fs/ufs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ufs/dir.c
@@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ static bool ufs_check_page(struct page *page)
 		   rec_len, ufs_get_de_namlen(sb, p));
 	goto fail;
 Eend:
-	p = (struct ufs_dir_entry *)(kaddr + offs);
 	ufs_error(sb, __func__,
 		   "entry in directory #%lu spans the page boundary"
 		   "offset=%lu",
-- 
2.37.3