netdev - [PATCH] net/packet: remove redundant initialization of variable err

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Message-Id: <20200701150433.551656-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date:   Wed,  1 Jul 2020 16:04:33 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net/packet: remove redundant initialization of variable err

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

The variable err is being initialized with a value that is never read
and it is being updated later with a new value.  The initialization is
redundant and can be removed.

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

diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index 29bd405adbbd..7b436ebde61d 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -4293,7 +4293,7 @@ static int packet_set_ring(struct sock *sk, union tpacket_req_u *req_u,
 	struct packet_ring_buffer *rb;
 	struct sk_buff_head *rb_queue;
 	__be16 num;
-	int err = -EINVAL;
+	int err;
 	/* Added to avoid minimal code churn */
 	struct tpacket_req *req = &req_u->req;
 
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2.27.0