The newinet value is initialized with inet_sk() in a block code to handle sockets for the ETH_P_IP protocol. Along this code path, newinet is never read. Thus, assignment to newinet is needless and can be removed. Signed-off-by: Nghia Le <nghialm78@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c index 2cc9b0e53ad1..551fce49841d 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c +++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c @@ -1263,7 +1263,6 @@ static struct sock *tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff * inet_sk(newsk)->pinet6 = tcp_inet6_sk(newsk); - newinet = inet_sk(newsk); newnp = tcp_inet6_sk(newsk); newtp = tcp_sk(newsk); -- 2.25.1