On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 03:24:15PM +0000, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > The variable failed is being assigned a value that is never read, the > following goto statement jumps to the end of the function and variable > failed is not referenced at all. Remove the redundant assignment. > > Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > net/rose/rose_route.c | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/net/rose/rose_route.c b/net/rose/rose_route.c > index c53307623236..5277631fa14c 100644 > --- a/net/rose/rose_route.c > +++ b/net/rose/rose_route.c > @@ -696,7 +696,6 @@ struct rose_neigh *rose_get_neigh(rose_address *addr, unsigned char *cause, > for (i = 0; i < node->count; i++) { > if (!rose_ftimer_running(node->neighbour[i])) { > res = node->neighbour[i]; > - failed = 0; > goto out; > } > failed = 1; I don't know the code, but I would have expected the out label to come earlier: } if (!route_frame) { /* connect request */ for (node = rose_node_list; node != NULL; node = node->next) { if (rosecmpm(addr, &node->address, node->mask) == 0) { for (i = 0; i < node->count; i++) { if (!rose_ftimer_running(node->neighbour[i])) { res = node->neighbour[i]; failed = 0; goto out; } failed = 1; } } } } <--------*********** I would have expected it to be right here. if (failed) { *cause = ROSE_OUT_OF_ORDER; *diagnostic = 0; } else { *cause = ROSE_NOT_OBTAINABLE; *diagnostic = 0; } out: if (!route_frame) spin_unlock_bh(&rose_node_list_lock); return res; regards, dan carpenter