[PATCH][next] accel/qaic: remove redundant assignment to pointer pexec

[Pranjal Ramajor Asha Kanojiya]

On 7/26/2023 8:30 AM, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
> On 7/25/2023 5:40 AM, Colin Ian King wrote:
>> Pointer pexec is being assigned a value however it is never read. The
>> assignment is redundant and can be removed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/accel/qaic/qaic_data.c | 1 -
>>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/accel/qaic/qaic_data.c 
>> b/drivers/accel/qaic/qaic_data.c
>> index e9a1cb779b30..8a6cb14f490e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/accel/qaic/qaic_data.c
>> +++ b/drivers/accel/qaic/qaic_data.c
>> @@ -1320,7 +1320,6 @@ static int __qaic_execute_bo_ioctl(struct 
>> drm_device *dev, void *data, struct dr
>>       user_data = u64_to_user_ptr(args->data);
>>       exec = kcalloc(args->hdr.count, size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> -    pexec = (struct qaic_partial_execute_entry *)exec;
>>       if (!exec)
>>           return -ENOMEM;
> 
> It does look like pexec is not used in this function after it was 
> refactored.  Shouldn't the declaration at the beginning of the function 
> also be removed?

Yeah we should remove the declaration as well. Although it is used some 
where to calculate its size i.e. sizeof(*pexec). We need to directly use 
the type in sizeof() i.e. sizeof(struct qaic_partial_execute_entry).