Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] 9p: remove dead stores (variable set again without being read)

From: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2023 17:26:30 +0200

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 08:23:38PM +0900, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> The 9p code for some reason used to initialize variables outside of the
> declaration, e.g. instead of just initializing the variable like this:
> 
> int retval = 0
> 
> We would be doing this:
> 
> int retval;
> retval = 0;
> 
> This is perfectly fine and the compiler will just optimize dead stores
> anyway, but scan-build seems to think this is a problem and there are
> many of these warnings making the output of scan-build full of such
> warnings:
> fs/9p/vfs_inode.c:916:2: warning: Value stored to 'retval' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
>         retval = 0;
>         ^        ~
> 
> I have no strong opinion here, but if we want to regularily run

s/regularily/regularly/

> scan-build we should fix these just to silence the messages.
> 
> I've confirmed these all are indeed ok to remove.

Likewise, these look good to me.

> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <[email-masked]>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>