drivers: uio: remove redundant assignment to variable retval

The variable retval is being initialized with a value that is
never read and it is being updated later with a new value. The
initialization is redundant and can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200425124448.139532-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio.c b/drivers/uio/uio.c
index 6e725c6c6256a2097dcf0f78fb7a1dc487990ffb..73efb80815db8a263445f1930b30a4edd1da0fb1 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/uio/uio.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ static void uio_dev_del_attributes(struct uio_device *idev)
 
 static int uio_get_minor(struct uio_device *idev)
 {
-       int retval = -ENOMEM;
+       int retval;
 
        mutex_lock(&minor_lock);
        retval = idr_alloc(&uio_idr, idev, 0, UIO_MAX_DEVICES, GFP_KERNEL);