From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> The variable newinet is initialized twice to the same (side effect-free) expression. Drop one initialization. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @forall@ idexpression *x; identifier f!=ERR_PTR; @@ x = f(...) ... when != x ( x = f(...,<+...x...+>,...) | * x = f(...) ) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- net/sctp/socket.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c index 67fdac9..f6d1e59 100644 --- a/net/sctp/socket.c +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c @@ -6359,7 +6359,7 @@ void sctp_copy_sock(struct sock *newsk, struct sock *sk, struct sctp_association *asoc) { struct inet_sock *inet = inet_sk(sk); - struct inet_sock *newinet = inet_sk(newsk); + struct inet_sock *newinet; newsk->sk_type = sk->sk_type; newsk->sk_bound_dev_if = sk->sk_bound_dev_if; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html