The pointer ip is being initialized with a value that is never read, it is being re-assigned later on. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan warning: fs/jfs/namei.c:886:16: warning: Value stored to 'ip' during its initialization is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- V2: fix commit message "uninitialized" -> "initialized" --- fs/jfs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/jfs/namei.c b/fs/jfs/namei.c index 029d47065600..57d7a4300210 100644 --- a/fs/jfs/namei.c +++ b/fs/jfs/namei.c @@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ static int jfs_symlink(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dip, struct component_name dname; u32 ssize; /* source pathname size */ struct btstack btstack; - struct inode *ip = d_inode(dentry); + struct inode *ip; s64 xlen = 0; int bmask = 0, xsize; s64 xaddr; -- 2.39.2
