From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The variable retval 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>
---
drivers/base/cpu.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
index 8f1d6569564c..2e834cd315d8 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ __cpu_device_create(struct device *parent, void *drvdata,
const char *fmt, va_list args)
{
struct device *dev = NULL;
- int retval = -ENODEV;
+ int retval;
dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dev) {
--
2.30.0
