There is no need to store the result of the multiply back to variable value after the multiplication. The store is redundant, replace *= with just *. Cleans up clang scan build warning: warning: Although the value stored to 'value' is used in the enclosing expression, the value is never actually read from 'value' [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/powercap/intel_rapl_common.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl_common.c b/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl_common.c index 83da499dd6ec..70e38278986d 100644 --- a/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl_common.c +++ b/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl_common.c @@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ static u64 rapl_compute_time_window_atom(struct rapl_package *rp, u64 value, * where time_unit is default to 1 sec. Never 0. */ if (!to_raw) - return (value) ? value *= rp->time_unit : rp->time_unit; + return (value) ? value * rp->time_unit : rp->time_unit; value = div64_u64(value, rp->time_unit); -- 2.36.1