netdev - Re: [PATCH] nexthops: remove redundant assignment to variable err

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Date:   Thu, 22 Aug 2019 08:59:02 -0400
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nexthops: remove redundant assignment to variable err

On 8/22/19 8:53 AM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Variable err 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/ipv4/nexthop.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>