From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 20:04:02 +0200 A local variable was assigned a null pointer despite of the detail that it was immediately reassigned by the following statement. Thus remove such an unnecessary initialisation. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c index b5a3cf0..7666212 100644 --- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c +++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c @@ -4083,7 +4083,7 @@ static int receive_sizes(struct drbd_connection *connection, struct packet_info } if (my_usize != p_usize) { - struct disk_conf *old_disk_conf, *new_disk_conf = NULL; + struct disk_conf *old_disk_conf, *new_disk_conf; new_disk_conf = kzalloc(sizeof(struct disk_conf), GFP_KERNEL); if (!new_disk_conf) { -- 2.10.0 -- 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