Re: [PATCH] sched/cputime: Remove unnecessary assignment statement

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Feb 28 2019 - 04:47:42 EST



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On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 03:12:13PM +0530, Ketan Patil wrote:
> The coverity tool has detected this issue as an unused value, since
> the code assigns the value to utime variable and then after the jump, the
> value of utime again gets updated, hence the previous value is not at all
> useful and this patch removes that first assignment.

Not a security issue then; just tell coverity to shut up.