The pointer dentry is assigned a value that is never read, the assignment is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang-scan warning: fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:1231:2: warning: Value stored to 'dentry' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] dentry = ERR_PTR(ret); Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c index 04474b8ccf0a..5946064cd794 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c @@ -1228,7 +1228,6 @@ static void nfsd_symlink(struct dentry *parent, const char *name, return; out_err: dput(dentry); - dentry = ERR_PTR(ret); goto out; } #else -- 2.30.2