2017-11-08 01:08:57

by Alan Stern

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: remove redundant assignment to temp

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Colin King wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
>
> The variable temp is being set at the end of each loop iteration
> but this value is never read, it is either being updated in just
> the case 1 block or at the end of the loop. Thus the assignment
> is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang warning:
>
> drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c:840:4: warning: Value stored to 'temp'
> is never read
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c
> index 7fb21d01b3d0..70d4768958be 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c
> @@ -838,7 +838,6 @@ static ssize_t fill_registers_buffer(struct debug_buffer *buf)
> default: /* unknown */
> break;
> }
> - temp = (cap >> 8) & 0xff;
> }
> }
> #endif

Good catch, but the solution is wrong. The original code was mistaken;
it should have said:

offset = (cap >> 8) & 0xff;

You can see that something like this is necessary if you consider the
code path for the case where (cap & 0xff) != 1 -- the loop would just
read the same capability value over and over again.

Would you like to submit a revised patch?

Alan Stern


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