From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The variable rc is being initialized with a value that is never read and it is being updated later with a new value. The initialization is redundant and can be removed. In one of the cases, ret can also be moved inside a for-loop to reduce the scope. Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/pstore/zone.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/pstore/zone.c b/fs/pstore/zone.c index 3cf7d6762c76..419de481c69c 100644 --- a/fs/pstore/zone.c +++ b/fs/pstore/zone.c @@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ static int psz_recover_zones(struct psz_context *cxt, */ static inline int psz_recovery(struct psz_context *cxt) { - int ret = -EBUSY; + int ret; if (atomic_read(&cxt->recovered)) return 0; @@ -746,13 +746,13 @@ static void psz_write_kmsg_hdr(struct pstore_zone *zone, static inline int notrace psz_kmsg_write_record(struct psz_context *cxt, struct pstore_record *record) { - int ret = -EBUSY; size_t size, hlen; struct pstore_zone *zone; unsigned int i; for (i = 0; i < cxt->kmsg_max_cnt; i++) { unsigned int zonenum, len; + int ret; zonenum = (cxt->kmsg_write_cnt + i) % cxt->kmsg_max_cnt; zone = cxt->kpszs[zonenum]; -- 2.25.1