printk: remove unneeded dead-store assignment
authorLukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Fri, 6 Nov 2020 03:40:05 +0000 (04:40 +0100)
committerPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Fri, 6 Nov 2020 10:05:44 +0000 (11:05 +0100)
commit90574a9c02f1ed46d9d8fec222fbcf375eb90e9b
treeca51be9bfe2d4790c1ae54778b9cccba2a1f1c7f
parent0f7636e1654338c34e3c220c02b2ffad78b6ccc0
printk: remove unneeded dead-store assignment

make clang-analyzer on x86_64 defconfig caught my attention with:

  kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c:885:3: warning:
  Value stored to 'desc' is never read [clang-analyzer-deadcode.DeadStores]

desc = to_desc(desc_ring, head_id);
^

Commit b6cf8b3f3312 ("printk: add lockless ringbuffer") introduced
desc_reserve() with this unneeded dead-store assignment.

As discussed with John Ogness privately, this is probably just some minor
left-over from previous iterations of the ringbuffer implementation. So,
simply remove this unneeded dead assignment to make clang-analyzer happy.

As compilers will detect this unneeded assignment and optimize this anyway,
the resulting object code is identical before and after this change.

No functional change. No change to object code.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201106034005.18822-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c