From c49d31809af2472131640f0e3429f621fe91360c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Ian King Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:28:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] net: rtnetlink: remove redundant assignment to variable err [ Upstream commit 7d3118016787b5c05da94b3bcdb96c9d6ff82c44 ] The variable err is being initializeed 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: bf29555f5bdc ("rtnetlink: Allow deleting FDB entries in user namespace") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 2b7ad5cf8fbf..f1338734c2ee 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -3823,8 +3823,8 @@ static int rtnl_fdb_del(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, struct ndmsg *ndm; struct nlattr *tb[NDA_MAX+1]; struct net_device *dev; - int err = -EINVAL; __u8 *addr; + int err; u16 vid; if (!netlink_capable(skb, CAP_NET_ADMIN))