netdev - [PATCH] bpf: remove redundant assignment to pointer t

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Date:   Tue,  7 Dec 2021 22:47:18 +0000
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] bpf: remove redundant assignment to pointer t

The pointer t is being initialized with a value that is never read. The
pointer is re-assigned a value a littler later on, hence the initialization
is redundant and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
---
 kernel/bpf/btf.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/btf.c b/kernel/bpf/btf.c
index 48cdf5b425a7..c70f80055b8e 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/btf.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/btf.c
@@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ static const char *btf_show_name(struct btf_show *show)
 	const char *ptr_suffix = &ptr_suffixes[strlen(ptr_suffixes)];
 	const char *name = NULL, *prefix = "", *parens = "";
 	const struct btf_member *m = show->state.member;
-	const struct btf_type *t = show->state.type;
+	const struct btf_type *t;
 	const struct btf_array *array;
 	u32 id = show->state.type_id;
 	const char *member = NULL;
-- 
2.33.1