Coccinelle suggests the following patch.  But the code is curious.  Is the
function expected to always return a failure value?

thanks,
julia

On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, kbuild test robot wrote:

> TO: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrze...@samsung.com>
> CC: kbuild-...@01.org
> CC: Felipe Balbi <ba...@ti.com>
> CC: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com>
> CC: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> CC: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
> CC: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org
>
> drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c:866:5-8: Unneeded variable: "ret". 
> Return "- EINVAL" on line 891
>
>
>  Remove unneeded variable used to store return value.
>
> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/misc/returnvar.cocci
>
> CC: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrze...@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang...@intel.com>
> ---
>
> Please take the patch only if it's a positive warning. Thanks!
>
>  uvc_configfs.c |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c
> @@ -863,7 +863,6 @@ static int uvcg_streaming_header_drop_li
>       struct uvcg_streaming_header *src_hdr;
>       struct uvcg_format *target_fmt = NULL;
>       struct uvcg_format_ptr *format_ptr, *tmp;
> -     int ret = -EINVAL;
>
>       src_hdr = to_uvcg_streaming_header(src);
>       mutex_lock(su_mutex); /* for navigating configfs hierarchy */
> @@ -888,7 +887,7 @@ static int uvcg_streaming_header_drop_li
>  out:
>       mutex_unlock(&opts->lock);
>       mutex_unlock(su_mutex);
> -     return ret;
> +     return -EINVAL;
>
>  }
>
>
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