From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:51:00 +0100
Subject: net: ixgbevf: Remove redundant initialization of variable ret_val
Patch-mainline: v5.16-rc1
Git-commit: 1b9abade3e75e8ea33302cbba1d7f637399534d2
References: jsc#SLE-18384
The variable ret_val is being initialized with a value that is never
read, it is being updated later on. The assignment is redundant and
can be removed.
Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ static s32 ixgbevf_reset_hw_vf(struct ix
{
struct ixgbe_mbx_info *mbx = &hw->mbx;
u32 timeout = IXGBE_VF_INIT_TIMEOUT;
- s32 ret_val = IXGBE_ERR_INVALID_MAC_ADDR;
u32 msgbuf[IXGBE_VF_PERMADDR_MSG_LEN];
u8 *addr = (u8 *)(&msgbuf[1]);
+ s32 ret_val;
/* Call adapter stop to disable tx/rx and clear interrupts */
hw->mac.ops.stop_adapter(hw);