The patch titled Subject: ocfs2/dlm: remove redundant assignment of variable ret has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was ocfs2-dlm-remove-redundant-assignment-of-variable-ret.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2/dlm: remove redundant assignment of variable ret The variable ret is being assigned a value that is never read, it is updated later on with a different value. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211007233452.30815-1-colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c~ocfs2-dlm-remove-redundant-assignment-of-variable-ret +++ a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c @@ -2698,7 +2698,6 @@ static int dlm_send_begin_reco_message(s continue; } retry: - ret = -EINVAL; mlog(0, "attempting to send begin reco msg to %d\n", nodenum); ret = o2net_send_message(DLM_BEGIN_RECO_MSG, dlm->key, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are lib-stackdepot-allow-optional-init-and-stack_table-allocation-by-kvmalloc-fix.patch