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* [PATCH] mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
@ 2020-11-02 12:06 Colin King
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From: Colin King @ 2020-11-02 12:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton, linux-mm; +Cc: kernel-janitors, linux-kernel

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

The pointer iov_r is being initialized with a value that is never read
and it is being updated later with a new value.  The initialization is
redundant and can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
 mm/process_vm_access.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/process_vm_access.c b/mm/process_vm_access.c
index 702250f148e7..4bcc11958089 100644
--- a/mm/process_vm_access.c
+++ b/mm/process_vm_access.c
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static ssize_t process_vm_rw(pid_t pid,
 	struct iovec iovstack_l[UIO_FASTIOV];
 	struct iovec iovstack_r[UIO_FASTIOV];
 	struct iovec *iov_l = iovstack_l;
-	struct iovec *iov_r = iovstack_r;
+	struct iovec *iov_r;
 	struct iov_iter iter;
 	ssize_t rc;
 	int dir = vm_write ? WRITE : READ;
-- 
2.27.0

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