netdev - [PATCH] 6lowpan: Remove unused pointer in lowpan_header

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Date:	Fri, 7 Feb 2014 22:58:38 +0100
From:	Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@....at>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@...il.com>,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	Jukka Rissanen <jukka.rissanen@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] 6lowpan: Remove unused pointer in lowpan_header_create()

Commit 8df8c56a (6lowpan: Moving generic compression code into 6lowpan_iphc.c)
left pointer 'hdr' unused - remove it.

Detected by Coverity: CID 1164868.

Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@....at>
---
 net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
index 48b25c0..8bfb401 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
@@ -106,7 +106,6 @@ static int lowpan_header_create(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			   unsigned short type, const void *_daddr,
 			   const void *_saddr, unsigned int len)
 {
-	struct ipv6hdr *hdr;
 	const u8 *saddr = _saddr;
 	const u8 *daddr = _daddr;
 	struct ieee802154_addr sa, da;
@@ -117,8 +116,6 @@ static int lowpan_header_create(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (type != ETH_P_IPV6)
 		return 0;
 
-	hdr = ipv6_hdr(skb);
-
 	if (!saddr)
 		saddr = dev->dev_addr;
 
-- 
1.8.3.2

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