From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 17:45:00 +0100 The variable “listeners” will eventually be set to an appropriate pointer a bit later. Thus omit the explicit initialisation at the beginning. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c index b71d9c21d15b..cfddc9c6a376 100644 --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c @@ -2018,7 +2018,7 @@ __netlink_kernel_create(struct net *net, int unit, struct module *module, struct socket *sock; struct sock *sk; struct netlink_sock *nlk; - struct listeners *listeners = NULL; + struct listeners *listeners; struct mutex *cb_mutex = cfg ? cfg->cb_mutex : NULL; unsigned int groups; -- 2.43.0