The variable rc is being assigned an value and then is being re-assigned a new value in the next statement. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan build warning: drivers/dax/bus.c:1207:2: warning: Value stored to 'rc' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dax/bus.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/dax/bus.c b/drivers/dax/bus.c index 797e1ebff299..f758afbf8f09 100644 --- a/drivers/dax/bus.c +++ b/drivers/dax/bus.c @@ -1204,7 +1204,6 @@ static ssize_t mapping_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, if (rc) return rc; - rc = -ENXIO; rc = down_write_killable(&dax_region_rwsem); if (rc) return rc; -- 2.39.2