On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 2:17 PM Milan Lakhani <milan.lakh...@codethink.co.uk> wrote: > > In trace_uprobe.c, trace_uprobe_create assigns ret to 0 but then never > uses this value. >
Milan, the patch makes sense, but I fear you did not run ./scripts/get_maintainers.pl because you did not include any specific maintainer as recipient. The patch subject could be: remove unneeded initialization (instead of the very generic "dead store" term). It is also interesting to see who added this initialization; was it unneeded since the existence of this function, did it become obsolete at some point in time due to refactoring? Run ./scripts/get_maintainers.pl and please CC: me; then you will get your Reviewed-by: tag. Lukas > Signed-off-by: Milan Lakhani <milan.lakh...@codethink.co.uk> > --- > kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c > index 3cf7128..c7c7070 100644 > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c > @@ -541,7 +541,6 @@ static int trace_uprobe_create(int argc, const char > **argv) > bool is_return = false; > int i, ret; > > - ret = 0; > ref_ctr_offset = 0; > > switch (argv[0][0]) { > -- > 2.7.4 >