At one place we assign major number we found to ret. That assignment is then never used and actually doesn't make any sense given how the code is currently structured (the assignment comes from pre-git times). Just remove it. Coverity-id: 1226852 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/char_dev.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c index f77f7702fabe..67b2007f10fe 100644 --- a/fs/char_dev.c +++ b/fs/char_dev.c @@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor, goto out; } major = i; - ret = major; } cd->major = major; -- 1.8.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html