Re: [PATCH] clk: remove unneeded dead-store initialization

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Sat Nov 14 2020 - 15:36:41 EST


Quoting Lukas Bulwahn (2020-11-06 01:48:20)
> make clang-analyzer on x86_64 defconfig caught my attention with:
>
> drivers/clk/clk.c:423:19:
> warning: Value stored to 'parent' during its initialization is never read
> [clang-analyzer-deadcode.DeadStores]
> struct clk_core *parent = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
> ^
>
> Commit fc0c209c147f ("clk: Allow parents to be specified without string
> names") introduced clk_core_fill_parent_index() with this unneeded
> dead-store initialization.
>
> So, simply remove this unneeded dead-store initialization to make
> clang-analyzer happy.
>
> As compilers will detect this unneeded assignment and optimize this anyway,
> the resulting object code is identical before and after this change.
>
> No functional change. No change to object code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Applied to clk-next