linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] esp6: remove redundant variable err

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Message-ID: <20221025082350.GR2602992@gauss3.secunet.de>
Date:   Tue, 25 Oct 2022 10:23:50 +0200
From:   Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:     Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
CC:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        "David Ahern" <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] esp6: remove redundant variable err

On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 11:08:09PM +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Variable err is being assigned a value that is not read, the assignment
> is redundant and so is the variable. Remove it.
> 
> Cleans up clang scan warning:
> net/ipv6/esp6_offload.c:64:7: warning: Although the value stored to 'err'
> is used in the enclosing expression, the value is never actually read
> from 'err' [deadcode.DeadStores]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>

Applied to ipsec-next, thanks!