Re: [PATCH][next] dax: remove redundant assignment to variable rc

From: Verma, Vishal L
Date: Tue Apr 16 2024 - 19:03:11 EST


On Mon, 2024-04-15 at 11:19 +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
> The variable rc is being assigned an value and then is being re-assigned
> a new value in the next statement. The assignment is redundant and can
> be removed.
>
> Cleans up clang scan build warning:
> drivers/dax/bus.c:1207:2: warning: Value stored to 'rc' is never
> read [deadcode.DeadStores]
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/dax/bus.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dax/bus.c b/drivers/dax/bus.c
> index 797e1ebff299..f758afbf8f09 100644
> --- a/drivers/dax/bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/dax/bus.c
> @@ -1204,7 +1204,6 @@ static ssize_t mapping_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
>   if (rc)
>   return rc;
>  
> - rc = -ENXIO;
>   rc = down_write_killable(&dax_region_rwsem);
>   if (rc)
>   return rc;