Re: [PATCH] crypto: chelsio: remove redundant premature assignment to iv

From: Ayush Sawal
Date: Wed May 27 2020 - 09:38:22 EST


Hi Colin,

On 5/27/2020 4:59 PM, Colin King wrote:
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Variable iv is being assigned twice with the same value, the first
assignment is redundant and can be removed and instead keep the
latter assignment of iv as it is closer to the point it is being
used.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_ipsec.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_ipsec.c b/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_ipsec.c
index af961dcd317b..f9ad8c93e5ff 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_ipsec.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_ipsec.c
@@ -398,7 +398,6 @@ inline void *copy_esn_pktxt(struct sk_buff *skb,
memset(pos, 0, len);
aadiv = (struct chcr_ipsec_aadiv *)pos;
esphdr = (struct ip_esp_hdr *)skb_transport_header(skb);
- iv = skb_transport_header(skb) + sizeof(struct ip_esp_hdr);
xo = xfrm_offload(skb);
aadiv->spi = (esphdr->spi);

Patch looks good, thank you for correcting.