We already initialize it to NULL when declaring it, no need to do that twice. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
@@ -322,7 +322,6 @@ static struct dentry *__create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode,
if (!parent)
parent = debugfs_mount->mnt_root;
- dentry = NULL;
mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {