The patch titled
Subject: lib: remove redundant assignment to variable ret
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
lib-remove-redundant-assignment-to-variable-ret.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lib-remove-redundant-assignment-to-variable-ret.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-remove-redundant-assignment-to-variable-ret.patch
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From: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: lib: remove redundant assignment to variable ret
Variable ret is being assigned a value that is never read. If the
for-loop is entered then ret is immediately re-assigned a new value. If
the for-loop is not executed ret is never read. The assignment is
redundant and can be removed.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211230134557.83633-1-colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/asn1_encoder.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/lib/asn1_encoder.c~lib-remove-redundant-assignment-to-variable-ret
+++ a/lib/asn1_encoder.c
@@ -164,8 +164,6 @@ asn1_encode_oid(unsigned char *data, con
data_len -= 3;
- ret = 0;
-
for (i = 2; i < oid_len; i++) {
ret = asn1_encode_oid_digit(&d, &data_len, oid[i]);
if (ret < 0)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx are
ocfs2-remove-redundant-assignment-to-pointer-root_bh.patch
mm-migrate-remove-redundant-variables-used-in-a-for-loop.patch
lib-remove-redundant-assignment-to-variable-ret.patch
nilfs2-remove-redundant-pointer-sbufs.patch
kernel-sysctlc-remove-unused-variable-ten_thousand.patch
