netdev - [PATCH] net: ieee802154: remove redundant assignment to rc

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Date:   Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:28:18 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>,
        Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: ieee802154: remove redundant assignment to rc

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Variable rc is initialized to a value that is never read and it is
re-assigned later. The initialization is redundant and can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 net/ieee802154/socket.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ieee802154/socket.c b/net/ieee802154/socket.c
index dacbd58e1799..badc5cfe4dc6 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/socket.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/socket.c
@@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ static struct packet_type ieee802154_packet_type = {
 
 static int __init af_ieee802154_init(void)
 {
-	int rc = -EINVAL;
+	int rc;
 
 	rc = proto_register(&ieee802154_raw_prot, 1);
 	if (rc)
-- 
2.20.1