> On Oct 10, 2022, at 4:24 PM, Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Variable host_err is assigned a value that is never read, it is being
> re-assigned a value in every different execution path in the following
> switch statement. The assignment is redundant and can be removed.
>
> Cleans up clang-scan warning:
> warning: Value stored to 'host_err' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>
Applying this for nfsd's for-next (not yet public). Thanks!
> ---
> fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
> index f650afedd67f..5093ae788f53 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
> @@ -1304,7 +1304,6 @@ nfsd_create_locked(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
> iap->ia_mode &= ~current_umask();
>
> err = 0;
> - host_err = 0;
> switch (type) {
> case S_IFREG:
> host_err = vfs_create(&init_user_ns, dirp, dchild, iap->ia_mode, true);
> --
> 2.37.3
>
--
Chuck Lever
