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From:   Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH][next] fsdax: remove redundant variable 'error'
Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2023 14:02:56 +0100
Message-Id: <20230621130256.2676126-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com>
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The variable 'error' is being assigned a value that is never read,
the assignment and the variable and redundant and can be removed.
Cleans up clang scan build warning:

fs/dax.c:1880:10: warning: Although the value stored to 'error' is
used in the enclosing expression, the value is never actually read
from 'error' [deadcode.DeadStores]

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
---
 fs/dax.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index 2ababb89918d..cb36c6746fc4 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -1830,7 +1830,6 @@ static vm_fault_t dax_iomap_pmd_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf, pfn_t *pfnp,
 	vm_fault_t ret = VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
 	pgoff_t max_pgoff;
 	void *entry;
-	int error;
 
 	if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)
 		iter.flags |= IOMAP_WRITE;
@@ -1877,7 +1876,7 @@ static vm_fault_t dax_iomap_pmd_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf, pfn_t *pfnp,
 	}
 
 	iter.pos = (loff_t)xas.xa_index << PAGE_SHIFT;
-	while ((error = iomap_iter(&iter, ops)) > 0) {
+	while (iomap_iter(&iter, ops) > 0) {
 		if (iomap_length(&iter) < PMD_SIZE)
 			continue; /* actually breaks out of the loop */
 
-- 
2.39.2