From:   Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
To:     Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][next] nfsd: remove redundant assignment to pointer dentry
Date:   Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:14:28 +0000
Message-Id: <20230214141428.301121-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com>
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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@gmail.com>
---
 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
index 04474b8ccf0a..5946064cd794 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
@@ -1228,7 +1228,6 @@ static void nfsd_symlink(struct dentry *parent, const char *name,
 	return;
 out_err:
 	dput(dentry);
-	dentry = ERR_PTR(ret);
 	goto out;
 }
 #else
-- 
2.30.2