From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The variable error is being initialized with a value that is never read
and it is being updated later with a new value. The initialization is
redundant and can be removed.
Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/stat.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c
index 3213d1b2750e..d0d5b8cbe4b2 100644
--- a/fs/stat.c
+++ b/fs/stat.c
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ int vfs_statx(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags,
struct kstat *stat, u32 request_mask)
{
struct path path;
- int error = -EINVAL;
+ int error;
unsigned lookup_flags;
if (vfs_stat_set_lookup_flags(&lookup_flags, flags))
--
2.25.1
