linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] scsi: lpfc: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in lpfc_sli_read_link

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:28:06 +0100
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
 Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@...adcom.com>,
 James Smart <james.smart@...adcom.com>,
 "James E. J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
 "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] scsi: lpfc: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation
 in lpfc_sli_read_link_ste()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:00:11 +0100

The variable “rgn23_data” will be reassigned by a following statement.
Thus omit the explicit initialisation at the beginning.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c
index 8de598c9e03b..1ce5671a7e07 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c
@@ -20694,7 +20694,7 @@ lpfc_sli4_get_config_region23(struct lpfc_hba *phba, char *rgn23_data)
 void
 lpfc_sli_read_link_ste(struct lpfc_hba *phba)
 {
-	uint8_t *rgn23_data = NULL;
+	uint8_t *rgn23_data;
 	uint32_t if_type, data_size, sub_tlv_len, tlv_offset;
 	uint32_t offset = 0;

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2.43.0