From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The pointer iov_r 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. Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/process_vm_access.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/process_vm_access.c b/mm/process_vm_access.c index 702250f148e7..4bcc11958089 100644 --- a/mm/process_vm_access.c +++ b/mm/process_vm_access.c @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static ssize_t process_vm_rw(pid_t pid, struct iovec iovstack_l[UIO_FASTIOV]; struct iovec iovstack_r[UIO_FASTIOV]; struct iovec *iov_l = iovstack_l; - struct iovec *iov_r = iovstack_r; + struct iovec *iov_r; struct iov_iter iter; ssize_t rc; int dir = vm_write ? WRITE : READ; -- 2.27.0