Jan 21 2010

net/sctp: Eliminate useless code 

Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

The variable newinet is initialized twice to the same (side effect-free)
expression.  Drop one initialization.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// 
@forall@
idexpression *x;
identifier f!=ERR_PTR;
@@

x = f(...)
... when != x
(
x = f(...,<+...x...+>,...)
|
* x = f(...)
)
// 

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 

---
 net/sctp/socket.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
index 67fdac9..f6d1e59 100644
--- a/net/sctp/socket.c
+++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
@@ -6359,7 +6359,7 @@ void sctp_copy_sock(struct sock *newsk, struct sock *sk,
 		    struct sctp_association *asoc)
 {
 	struct inet_sock *inet = inet_sk(sk);
-	struct inet_sock *newinet = inet_sk(newsk);
+	struct inet_sock *newinet;
 
 	newsk->sk_type = sk->sk_type;
 	newsk->sk_bound_dev_if = sk->sk_bound_dev_if;

qlambert