Re: [PATCH 2/2] edac: pnd2_edac: remove useless variable assignment

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 02:30:10PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Value assigned to variable _ret_ at line 176 is overwritten
> a few lines below before it can be used. This makes such
> variable assignment useless.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1403730

Get rid of this tag...

> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/edac/pnd2_edac.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/edac/pnd2_edac.c b/drivers/edac/pnd2_edac.c
> index c51ec73..d1de53e 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/pnd2_edac.c
> +++ b/drivers/edac/pnd2_edac.c
> @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ static int apl_rd_reg(int port, int off, int op, void *data, size_t sz, char *na
>  	edac_dbg(2, "Read %s port=%x off=%x op=%x\n", name, port, off, op);
>  	switch (sz) {
>  	case 8:
> -		ret = sbi_send(port, off + 4, op, (u32 *)(data + 4));
> +		sbi_send(port, off + 4, op, (u32 *)(data + 4));

... keep ret but OR it in with its previous value:

        case 8:
                ret  = sbi_send(port, off + 4, op, (u32 *)(data + 4));
		/* fall through */
        case 4:
                ret |= sbi_send(port, off, op, (u32 *)data);

>  		/* fall through */
>  	case 4:
>  		ret = sbi_send(port, off, op, (u32 *)data);

... and merge both into a single patch.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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