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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ip6_tables: remove redundant assignment to e
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 14:18:51 +0100
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Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 01:02:00PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> The assignment to variable e is redundant since the same assignment
> occurs just a few lines later, hence it can be removed.  Cleans up
> clang warning: warning: Value stored to 'e' is never read

Seems like net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c also has exactly the same
redundant assignment, see mark_source_chains() there.

If we can fix this all iptables spots in one go, the best. Please,
also check arp_tables and ebtables.

Thanks!