Re: [PATCH] virtio_ring: Drop unnecessary initialization of detach_buf_packed

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 06:29:46AM -0400, Deming Wang wrote:
> The variable is initialized but it is only used after its assignment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Deming Wang <wangdeming@xxxxxxxxxx>

The thing to do here is to move the first assigment to the
initialization.

> ---
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> index 8974c34b40fd..abac0a3de440 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> @@ -1544,7 +1544,7 @@ static bool virtqueue_kick_prepare_packed(struct virtqueue *_vq)
>  static void detach_buf_packed(struct vring_virtqueue *vq,
>  			      unsigned int id, void **ctx)
>  {
> -	struct vring_desc_state_packed *state = NULL;
> +	struct vring_desc_state_packed *state;
>  	struct vring_packed_desc *desc;
>  	unsigned int i, curr;
>  
> -- 
> 2.27.0