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

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Wed Aug 26 2020 - 16:09:14 EST


On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 12:37:45AM +0100, Alex Dewar wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 08:36:31PM +0000, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> > 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
>
> Ping? The second patch in this series had a mistake in it, but I think
> this one's still good to go :-)

Thanks, applied for 5.10.--b.