Re: [PATCH 1/2] nfsd: Remove unnecessary assignment in nfs4xdr.c

[Frank van der Linden]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 03:12:51PM +0100, Alex Dewar wrote:
> 
> In nfsd4_encode_listxattrs(), the variable p is assigned to at one point
> but this value is never used before p is reassigned. Fix this.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> index 259d5ad0e3f47..1a0341fd80f9a 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> @@ -4859,7 +4859,7 @@ nfsd4_encode_listxattrs(struct nfsd4_compoundres *resp, __be32 nfserr,
>                         goto out;
>                 }
> 
> -               p = xdr_encode_opaque(p, sp, slen);
> +               xdr_encode_opaque(p, sp, slen);
> 
>                 xdrleft -= xdrlen;
>                 count++;
> --
> 2.28.0
> 

Yep, I guess my linting missed that, thanks for the fix.

- Frank