Re: [PATCH][next] mlxsw: spectrum_router: remove redundant initialization of variable force

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Apr 09 2021 - 05:11:36 EST


On Mon, 2021-03-29 at 09:04 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 10:33:34PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The variable force 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c
> > index 6ccaa194733b..ff240e3c29f7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c
> > @@ -5059,7 +5059,7 @@ mlxsw_sp_nexthop_obj_bucket_adj_update(struct mlxsw_sp *mlxsw_sp,
> >  {
> >   u16 bucket_index = info->nh_res_bucket->bucket_index;
> >   struct netlink_ext_ack *extack = info->extack;
> > - bool force = info->nh_res_bucket->force;
> > + bool force;
> >   char ratr_pl_new[MLXSW_REG_RATR_LEN];
> >   char ratr_pl[MLXSW_REG_RATR_LEN];
> >   u32 adj_index;
>
> Reverse Christmas tree.

Is still terrible style.