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[net-next] packet: minor: remove unused err assignment

Message ID 20121024132723.GA21528@thinkbox
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Daniel Borkmann Oct. 24, 2012, 1:27 p.m. UTC
This tiny patch removes two unused err assignments. In those two cases the
err variable is either overwritten with another value at a later point in
time without having read the previous assigment, or it is assigned and the
function returns without using/reading err after the assignment.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel.borkmann@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
---
 net/packet/af_packet.c |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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Comments

David Miller Oct. 26, 2012, 6:17 a.m. UTC | #1
From: Daniel Borkmann <dxchgb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:27:24 +0200

> This tiny patch removes two unused err assignments. In those two cases the
> err variable is either overwritten with another value at a later point in
> time without having read the previous assigment, or it is assigned and the
> function returns without using/reading err after the assignment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel.borkmann@tik.ee.ethz.ch>

Applied, thanks.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index 94060ed..9034f52 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -1907,7 +1907,6 @@  static int tpacket_fill_skb(struct packet_sock *po, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		to_write -= dev->hard_header_len;
 	}
 
-	err = -EFAULT;
 	offset = offset_in_page(data);
 	len_max = PAGE_SIZE - offset;
 	len = ((to_write > len_max) ? len_max : to_write);
@@ -1957,7 +1956,6 @@  static int tpacket_snd(struct packet_sock *po, struct msghdr *msg)
 
 	mutex_lock(&po->pg_vec_lock);
 
-	err = -EBUSY;
 	if (saddr == NULL) {
 		dev = po->prot_hook.dev;
 		proto	= po->num;