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SubjectRe: [PATCH] net: ipv4: remove redundant initialization in inet_rtm_deladdr
On Fri,  6 Nov 2020 01:42:37 -0500 menglong8.dong@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Menglong Dong <dong.menglong@zte.com.cn>
>
> The initialization for 'err' with '-EINVAL' is redundant and
> can be removed, as it is updated soon.
>
> Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <dong.menglong@zte.com.cn>

How many changes like this are there in the kernel right now?

I'm afraid that if there are too many it's not worth the effort.

Also - what tool do you use to find those, we need to make sure new
instances don't get into the tree.

> diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
> index 123a6d3..847cb18 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
> @@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ static int inet_rtm_deladdr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
> struct ifaddrmsg *ifm;
> struct in_ifaddr *ifa;
>

You can remove this empty line while at it.

> - int err = -EINVAL;
> + int err;
>
> ASSERT_RTNL();
>

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