Re: [PATCH] i386 msr: remove unused variable

From: David Rientjes
Date: Tue Nov 21 2006 - 16:06:42 EST


On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 12:27:22PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> > Remove unused variable in msr_write().
> >
> > Reported by D Binderman <dcb314@xxxxxxxxxxx>.
> >
> > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/i386/kernel/msr.c | 3 +--
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/msr.c b/arch/i386/kernel/msr.c
> > index d535cdb..331bd59 100644
> > --- a/arch/i386/kernel/msr.c
> > +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/msr.c
> > @@ -195,7 +195,6 @@ static ssize_t msr_write(struct file *fi
> > {
> > const u32 __user *tmp = (const u32 __user *)buf;
> > u32 data[2];
> > - size_t rv;
> > u32 reg = *ppos;
> > int cpu = iminor(file->f_dentry->d_inode);
> > int err;
> > @@ -203,7 +202,7 @@ static ssize_t msr_write(struct file *fi
> > if (count % 8)
> > return -EINVAL; /* Invalid chunk size */
> >
> > - for (rv = 0; count; count -= 8) {
> > + for (; count; count -= 8) {
> >...
>
> What about changing this to a while() loop?
>

Unnecessary because tmp is also incremented at the bottom of this for loop
so there are two incremental variables. It is not better served with a
while loop; the absence of an initialization variable does not suggest
such.

David
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