Re: [PATCH] PM / wakeup: remove redundant assignment to variable retval

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Apr 22 2021 - 09:26:46 EST


On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 2:44 PM Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The variable retval is being initialized with a value that is
> never read and it is being updated later with a new value. The
> initialization is redundant and can be removed.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/base/power/wakeup_stats.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/power/wakeup_stats.c b/drivers/base/power/wakeup_stats.c
> index 5ade7539ac02..924fac493c4f 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/power/wakeup_stats.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/power/wakeup_stats.c
> @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ static struct device *wakeup_source_device_create(struct device *parent,
> struct wakeup_source *ws)
> {
> struct device *dev = NULL;
> - int retval = -ENODEV;
> + int retval;
>
> dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!dev) {
> --

Applied as 5.13 material, thanks!