From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: [2.6 patch] pktgen: remove useless assignment Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 10:11:08 +0100 Message-ID: <20051102091108.GG8009@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan Return-path: To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On main codepath pkt_dev is immediately rewritten. On error codepath it isn't used. Noticed by Coverity checker. From: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- linux-vanilla/net/core/pktgen.c +++ linux-coverity-1762/net/core/pktgen.c @@ -2882,7 +2882,7 @@ static int pktgen_add_device(struct pktg /* We don't allow a device to be on several threads */ - if( (pkt_dev = __pktgen_NN_threads(ifname, FIND)) == NULL) { + if(__pktgen_NN_threads(ifname, FIND) == NULL) { pkt_dev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct pktgen_dev), GFP_KERNEL); if (!pkt_dev)