From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The pointer pneg_ctxt is being initialized with a value that is never read and it is being updated later with a new value. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c index ed77f94dbf1d..be0de8a63e57 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c +++ b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ static void assemble_neg_contexts(struct smb2_negotiate_req *req, struct TCP_Server_Info *server, unsigned int *total_len) { - char *pneg_ctxt = (char *)req; + char *pneg_ctxt; unsigned int ctxt_len; if (*total_len > 200) { -- 2.24.0