[PATCH] apparmor: Remove unused value

Chandra Mohan Sundar chandramohan.explore at gmail.com
Wed Aug 13 16:01:43 UTC 2025


The value "new" is being assigned to NULL but that statement does not
 have effect since "new" is being overwritten in the subsequent fallback case.

Remove the unused value. This issue was reported by coverity static
analyzer.

Fixes: a9eb185be84e9 (apparmor: fix x_table_lookup)
Signed-off-by: Chandra Mohan Sundar <chandramohan.explore at gmail.com>
---
 security/apparmor/domain.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/apparmor/domain.c b/security/apparmor/domain.c
index 267da82afb14..9c0c7fa8de46 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/domain.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/domain.c
@@ -592,7 +592,6 @@ static struct aa_label *x_to_label(struct aa_profile *profile,
 		if (!new || **lookupname != '&')
 			break;
 		stack = new;
-		new = NULL;
 		fallthrough;	/* to X_NAME */
 	case AA_X_NAME:
 		if (xindex & AA_X_CHILD)
-- 
2.43.0




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