From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The pointer hdr is being assigned 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> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200402102537.503103-1-colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c index 8d3a707789de..e02ea51273ff 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c @@ -392,8 +392,6 @@ efi_status_t __efiapi efi_pe_entry(efi_handle_t handle, image_base = efi_table_attr(image, image_base); image_offset = (void *)startup_32 - image_base; - hdr = &((struct boot_params *)image_base)->hdr; - status = efi_allocate_pages(0x4000, (unsigned long *)&boot_params, ULONG_MAX); if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) { efi_printk("Failed to allocate lowmem for boot params\n"); -- 2.17.1