netdev - [PATCH] net: bridge: remove redundant assignment

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Message-ID: <YKx3ptXPNbd3Bdiq@fedora>
Date:   Mon, 24 May 2021 23:05:58 -0500
From:   Nigel Christian <nigel.l.christian@...il.com>
To:     Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: bridge: remove redundant assignment

The variable br is assigned a value that is not being read after
exiting case IFLA_STATS_LINK_XSTATS_SLAVE. The assignment is
redundant and can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Nigel Christian <nigel.l.christian@...il.com>
---
 net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
index e4e6e991313e..8642e56059fb 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
@@ -1644,7 +1644,6 @@ static size_t br_get_linkxstats_size(const struct net_device *dev, int attr)
 		p = br_port_get_rtnl(dev);
 		if (!p)
 			return 0;
-		br = p->br;
 		vg = nbp_vlan_group(p);
 		break;
 	default:
-- 
2.31.1