Re: [PATCH][next] ipv4: remove redundant assignment to n

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On 5/24/19 3:56 PM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The pointer n is being assigned a value however this value is
> never read in the code block and the end of the code block
> continues to the next loop iteration. Clean up the code by
> removing the redundant assignment.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/fib_trie.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 

This looks right to me -- n should have been dropped. It is used in
fib_trie_free from which I created  __fib_info_notify_update but
__fib_info_notify_update does do the put_child_root or node_free, it
only walks the tree looking for relevant entries that need to send the
NEWROUTE notifications.

Fixes: 1bff1a0c9bbda ("ipv4: Add function to send route updates")
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>




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