Re: [PATCH] crypto: chelsio: remove redundant premature assignment to iv

[Ayush Sawal]

Hi Colin,

On 5/27/2020 4:59 PM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Variable iv is being assigned twice with the same value, the first
> assignment is redundant and can be removed and instead keep the
> latter assignment of iv as it is closer to the point it is being
> used.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_ipsec.c | 1 -
>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_ipsec.c b/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_ipsec.c
> index af961dcd317b..f9ad8c93e5ff 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_ipsec.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_ipsec.c
> @@ -398,7 +398,6 @@ inline void *copy_esn_pktxt(struct sk_buff *skb,
>   	memset(pos, 0, len);
>   	aadiv = (struct chcr_ipsec_aadiv *)pos;
>   	esphdr = (struct ip_esp_hdr *)skb_transport_header(skb);
> -	iv = skb_transport_header(skb) + sizeof(struct ip_esp_hdr);
>   	xo = xfrm_offload(skb);
>   
>   	aadiv->spi = (esphdr->spi);

Patch looks good, thank you for correcting.