Get rid of redundant assignment to a variable ret from function bio_map_user_iov as it is being assigned a value that is never read. It is being re-assigned in the first instruction after the while loop Reported by clang-tidy [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michalorzel.eng@xxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-map.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-map.c b/block/blk-map.c index c7f71d83eff1..fa72e63e18c2 100644 --- a/block/blk-map.c +++ b/block/blk-map.c @@ -260,10 +260,9 @@ static int bio_map_user_iov(struct request *rq, struct iov_iter *iter, npages = DIV_ROUND_UP(offs + bytes, PAGE_SIZE); - if (unlikely(offs & queue_dma_alignment(rq->q))) { - ret = -EINVAL; + if (unlikely(offs & queue_dma_alignment(rq->q))) j = 0; - } else { + else { for (j = 0; j < npages; j++) { struct page *page = pages[j]; unsigned int n = PAGE_SIZE - offs; -- 2.25.1