On 05/02/18 18:44, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 10:20 AM, Ross Zwisler > <ross.zwis...@linux.intel.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 02:08:52PM +0000, Colin King wrote: >>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com> >>> >>> Pointer dev is being assigned a value that is never read, it is being >>> re-assigned the same value later on, hence the initialization is redundant >>> and can be removed. >>> >>> Cleans up clang warning: >>> drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c:307:17: warning: Value stored to 'dev' during >>> its initialization is never read >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com> >> >> Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwis...@linux.intel.com> >> >> More importantly this fixes a potential NULL pointer dereference. nd_pfn >> is checked for NULL a few lines down, but we would have crashed here trying >> to >> get nd_pfn->dev. >> > > No we wouldn't crash. We're just calculating the address, not > de-referencing a NULL pointer.
Indeed, it's just a warning clean up. Nothing more. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
