The patch titled Subject: ocfs2/dlm: remove redundant assignment to ret has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ocfs2-dlm-remove-redundant-assignment-to-ret.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ocfs2-dlm-remove-redundant-assignment-to-ret.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ocfs2-dlm-remove-redundant-assignment-to-ret.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2/dlm: remove redundant assignment to ret The variable ret 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") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191202164833.62865-1-colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@xxxxxxx> Cc: Gang He <ghe@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c~ocfs2-dlm-remove-redundant-assignment-to-ret +++ a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c @@ -1668,7 +1668,7 @@ static int dlm_lockres_master_requery(st int dlm_do_master_requery(struct dlm_ctxt *dlm, struct dlm_lock_resource *res, u8 nodenum, u8 *real_master) { - int ret = -EINVAL; + int ret; struct dlm_master_requery req; int status = DLM_LOCK_RES_OWNER_UNKNOWN; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-dlm-remove-redundant-assignment-to-ret.patch