Coverity detected that usdt_rel_ip is unconditionally overwritten anyways, so there is no need to unnecessarily initialize it with unused value. Clean this up. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/usdt.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/usdt.c b/tools/lib/bpf/usdt.c index 5159207cbfd9..d18e37982344 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/usdt.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/usdt.c @@ -652,11 +652,9 @@ static int collect_usdt_targets(struct usdt_manager *man, Elf *elf, const char * * * [0] https://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/UserSpaceProbeImplementation */ - usdt_rel_ip = usdt_abs_ip = note.loc_addr; - if (base_addr) { + usdt_abs_ip = note.loc_addr; + if (base_addr) usdt_abs_ip += base_addr - note.base_addr; - usdt_rel_ip += base_addr - note.base_addr; - } /* When attaching uprobes (which is what USDTs basically are) * kernel expects file offset to be specified, not a relative -- 2.30.2