Subject: [PATCH 5/7] VMCI: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in
 qp_broker_create()
From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:09:10 +0100

The local variable "entry" will eventually be set to an appropriate pointer
a bit later. Thus omit the explicit initialisation at the beginning.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c
index 7d4437240099..5546274dec5d 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c
@@ -1291,7 +1291,7 @@ static int qp_broker_create(struct vmci_handle handle,
 			    vmci_event_release_cb wakeup_cb,
 			    void *client_data, struct qp_broker_entry **ent)
 {
-	struct qp_broker_entry *entry = NULL;
+	struct qp_broker_entry *entry;
 	const u32 context_id = vmci_ctx_get_id(context);
 	bool is_local = flags & VMCI_QPFLAG_LOCAL;
 	int result;
-- 
2.15.1