From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> 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); No need to initialize "int ret = -ENOMEM;" either. These are vestiges of nfsd_mkdir(), from whence I copied nfsd_symlink(). Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c index 04474b8ccf0a..7b8f17ee5224 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c @@ -1214,22 +1214,17 @@ static void nfsd_symlink(struct dentry *parent, const char *name, { struct inode *dir = parent->d_inode; struct dentry *dentry; - int ret = -ENOMEM; + int ret; inode_lock(dir); dentry = d_alloc_name(parent, name); if (!dentry) - goto out_err; + goto out; ret = __nfsd_symlink(d_inode(parent), dentry, S_IFLNK | 0777, content); if (ret) - goto out_err; + dput(dentry); out: inode_unlock(dir); - return; -out_err: - dput(dentry); - dentry = ERR_PTR(ret); - goto out; } #else static inline void nfsd_symlink(struct dentry *parent, const char *name,