From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The variable status is being initialized with a value that is never read and it is being updated later with a new value. The initialization is redundant and can be removed. Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sctp/protocol.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c index 7ecaf7d575c0..a0448f7c64b9 100644 --- a/net/sctp/protocol.c +++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c @@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ static struct pernet_operations sctp_ctrlsock_ops = { static __init int sctp_init(void) { int i; - int status = -EINVAL; + int status; unsigned long goal; unsigned long limit; unsigned long nr_pages = totalram_pages(); -- 2.27.0