Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753204Ab0AUKVx (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:21:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751961Ab0AUKVv (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:21:51 -0500 Received: from mgw1.diku.dk ([130.225.96.91]:58029 "EHLO mgw1.diku.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750866Ab0AUKVu (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:21:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:21:47 +0100 (CET) From: Julia Lawall To: David Miller Cc: vladislav.yasevich@hp.com, sri@us.ibm.com, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] net/sctp: Eliminate useless code In-Reply-To: <20100120.150343.236848237.davem@davemloft.net> Message-ID: References: <4B574702.4040602@hp.com> <20100120.150343.236848237.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1233 Lines: 47 From: Julia Lawall The variable newinet is initialized twice to the same (side effect-free) expression. Drop one initialization. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @forall@ idexpression *x; identifier f!=ERR_PTR; @@ x = f(...) ... when != x ( x = f(...,<+...x...+>,...) | * x = f(...) ) // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall --- net/sctp/socket.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c index 67fdac9..f6d1e59 100644 --- a/net/sctp/socket.c +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c @@ -6359,7 +6359,7 @@ void sctp_copy_sock(struct sock *newsk, struct sock *sk, struct sctp_association *asoc) { struct inet_sock *inet = inet_sk(sk); - struct inet_sock *newinet = inet_sk(newsk); + struct inet_sock *newinet; newsk->sk_type = sk->sk_type; newsk->sk_bound_dev_if = sk->sk_bound_dev_if; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/