Re: [patch] proc: cleanup: remove unused assignments

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 03/06, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>
> I removed 3 unused assignments.  The first two get reset on the first
> statement of their functions.  For "err" in root.c we don't return an
> error and we don't use the variable again.

Looks like the obviously nice cleanup to me.

> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
>
> diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
> index a731084..875d636 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/base.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/base.c
> @@ -2434,7 +2434,7 @@ static struct dentry *proc_base_instantiate(struct inode *dir,
>  	const struct pid_entry *p = ptr;
>  	struct inode *inode;
>  	struct proc_inode *ei;
> -	struct dentry *error = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +	struct dentry *error;
>
>  	/* Allocate the inode */
>  	error = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> @@ -2784,7 +2784,7 @@ out:
>
>  struct dentry *proc_pid_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry * dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
>  {
> -	struct dentry *result = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
> +	struct dentry *result;
>  	struct task_struct *task;
>  	unsigned tgid;
>  	struct pid_namespace *ns;
> diff --git a/fs/proc/root.c b/fs/proc/root.c
> index 757c069..4258384 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/root.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/root.c
> @@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ void __init proc_root_init(void)
>  	if (err)
>  		return;
>  	proc_mnt = kern_mount_data(&proc_fs_type, &init_pid_ns);
> -	err = PTR_ERR(proc_mnt);
>  	if (IS_ERR(proc_mnt)) {
>  		unregister_filesystem(&proc_fs_type);
>  		return;