5.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 69eed23baf877bbb1f14d7f4df54f89807c9ee2a ] 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> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c index 9215350ad095c..88a2ad962a055 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c @@ -1306,7 +1306,6 @@ 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); -- 2.43.0