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* [PATCH] file: remove redundant assignment to variable err
@ 2020-12-04 17:56 Colin King
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From: Colin King @ 2020-12-04 17:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alexander Viro, linux-fsdevel; +Cc: kernel-janitors, linux-kernel

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

The variable err 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>
---
 fs/file.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
index 412033d8cfdf..5d1d1b2a5c97 100644
--- a/fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/file.c
@@ -1086,7 +1086,7 @@ int __receive_fd(int fd, struct file *file, int __user *ufd, unsigned int o_flag
 
 static int ksys_dup3(unsigned int oldfd, unsigned int newfd, int flags)
 {
-	int err = -EBADF;
+	int err;
 	struct file *file;
 	struct files_struct *files = current->files;
 
-- 
2.29.2


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