netdev - [PATCH] rxrpc: sendmsg: Fix variable overwrite in rxrpc_queue

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Message-ID: <20171127180207.GA25428@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:02:07 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] rxrpc: sendmsg: Fix variable overwrite in rxrpc_queue_packet

Value assigned to variable resend_at is overwritten before it can be used.

Fix this by removing the value overwrite as it seems that this is a
leftover code.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1462262
Fixes: beb8e5e4f38c ("rxrpc: Express protocol timeouts in terms of RTT")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
---
 net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c b/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c
index a1c53ac..42060dd 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c
@@ -233,7 +233,6 @@ static void rxrpc_queue_packet(struct rxrpc_sock *rx, struct rxrpc_call *call,
 		if (resend_at < 1)
 			resend_at = 1;
 
-		resend_at = now + rxrpc_resend_timeout;
 		WRITE_ONCE(call->resend_at, resend_at);
 		rxrpc_reduce_call_timer(call, resend_at, now,
 					rxrpc_timer_set_for_send);
-- 
2.7.4