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

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Date:   Mon,  2 Nov 2020 12:16:15 +0000
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: dev_ioctl: 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/core/dev_ioctl.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
index 205e92e604ef..db8a0ff86f36 100644
--- a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
+++ b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ static int dev_do_ioctl(struct net_device *dev,
 			struct ifreq *ifr, unsigned int cmd)
 {
 	const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;
-	int err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	int err;
 
 	err = dsa_ndo_do_ioctl(dev, ifr, cmd);
 	if (err == 0 || err != -EOPNOTSUPP)
-- 
2.27.0