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SubjectRe: [PATCH][next] xfs: remove redundant assignment to variable error
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 10:19:18AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
>
> On 11/6/19 9:59 AM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> > On 06/11/2019 15:56, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 03:52:48PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> >>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> >>>
> >>> Variable error is being initialized with a value that is never read
> >>> and is being re-assigned a couple of statements later on. The
> >>> assignment is redundant and hence can be removed.
> >>>
> >>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> >>
> >> Er... is there a coverity id that goes with this?
> >
> > Unfortunately it is a private one, so it does not make sense to use it.
>
> If it's not in the upstream coverity scan (and AFAICT it's not),
> it makes no sense to reference coverity in the commit log.
> It's not useful to anyone IMHO.
>

It's sort of useful if want to see how the bug was found or if you want
to count how many bugs coverity finds... I'm pretty sure I remember
someone complaining that it wasn't mentioned in the commit.

regards,
dan carpenter

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