[PATCH v2] apparmor: Remove unused value

Chandra Mohan Sundar chandramohan.explore at gmail.com
Thu Aug 14 16:54:01 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 when stacking is not the first entry")
Signed-off-by: Chandra Mohan Sundar <chandramohan.explore at gmail.com>
---
Changes since v1:
    Fixed the commit message and Fixes tag message formatting.

 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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