Re: [PATCH][next] drm/auth: remove redundant assignment to variable ret

[Daniel Vetter]

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:27:15PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The variable ret 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>

Queued up, but probably for 5.9. Thanks for your patch.
-Daniel

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c
> index 800ac39f3213..74ce0c29c960 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c
> @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ static void drm_drop_master(struct drm_device *dev,
>  int drm_dropmaster_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
>  			 struct drm_file *file_priv)
>  {
> -	int ret = -EINVAL;
> +	int ret;
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&dev->master_mutex);
>  
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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