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cifs: remove redundant assignment to pointer pneg_ctxt

Message ID 20191202185942.81854-1-colin.king@canonical.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series cifs: remove redundant assignment to pointer pneg_ctxt | expand

Commit Message

Colin King Dec. 2, 2019, 6:59 p.m. UTC 
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

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

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
 fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Steve French Dec. 2, 2019, 10:57 p.m. UTC | #1 
merged into cifs-2.6.git for-next

On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 1:00 PM Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> The pointer pneg_ctxt is being initialized with a value that is never
> read and it is being updated later with a new value.  The assignment
> is redundant and can be removed.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
> index ed77f94dbf1d..be0de8a63e57 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
> @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ static void
>  assemble_neg_contexts(struct smb2_negotiate_req *req,
>                       struct TCP_Server_Info *server, unsigned int *total_len)
>  {
> -       char *pneg_ctxt = (char *)req;
> +       char *pneg_ctxt;
>         unsigned int ctxt_len;
>
>         if (*total_len > 200) {
> --
> 2.24.0
>
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diff --git a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
index ed77f94dbf1d..be0de8a63e57 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@  static void
 assemble_neg_contexts(struct smb2_negotiate_req *req,
 		      struct TCP_Server_Info *server, unsigned int *total_len)
 {
-	char *pneg_ctxt = (char *)req;
+	char *pneg_ctxt;
 	unsigned int ctxt_len;
 
 	if (*total_len > 200) {