Re: [PATCH] EDAC/device: Remove redundant initialization of pointer dev_ctl

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 11:59:13AM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The variable dev_ctl is being initialized with a value that is never
> read, it is being updated later on. The assignment is redundant and
> can be removed.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")

I'll never get a public reference to what those things mean, will I?

> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/edac/edac_device.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_device.c b/drivers/edac/edac_device.c
> index 8c4d947fb848..a337f7afc3b9 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/edac_device.c
> +++ b/drivers/edac/edac_device.c
> @@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ struct edac_device_ctl_info *edac_device_alloc_ctl_info(
>  	 * provide if we could simply hardcode everything into a single struct.
>  	 */
>  	p = NULL;
> -	dev_ctl = edac_align_ptr(&p, sizeof(*dev_ctl), 1);

Are you absolutely sure this function doesn't have any side-effects,
say, to &p and removing the call would break the pointer offsets for the
one-shot allocation?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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