Re: [PATCH][next] nfsd: remove redundant assignment to pointer dentry

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Tue Feb 14 2023 - 09:55:46 EST


On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 02:14:28PM +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
> The pointer dentry is assigned a value that is never read, the
> assignment is redundant and can be removed.
>
> Cleans up clang-scan warning:
> fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:1231:2: warning: Value stored to 'dentry' is
> never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
> dentry = ERR_PTR(ret);
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>

No need to initalized "int ret = -ENOMEM;" either.

regards,
dan carpenter