The "err" variable was declared but never used within the
passt_vhost_user_event() function. This resulted in a dead code
warning (CID 1612375) from Coverity.

Remove the unused variable and the associated error block
to resolve the issue.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
---
 net/passt.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/passt.c b/net/passt.c
index 6f616ba3c258..9cd5b3e6f2af 100644
--- a/net/passt.c
+++ b/net/passt.c
@@ -397,7 +397,6 @@ err:
 static void passt_vhost_user_event(void *opaque, QEMUChrEvent event)
 {
     NetPasstState *s = opaque;
-    Error *err = NULL;
 
     switch (event) {
     case CHR_EVENT_OPENED:
@@ -428,10 +427,6 @@ static void passt_vhost_user_event(void *opaque, QEMUChrEvent event)
         /* Ignore */
         break;
     }
-
-    if (err) {
-        error_report_err(err);
-    }
 }
 
 static int net_passt_vhost_user_init(NetPasstState *s, Error **errp)
-- 
2.49.0

On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 at 18:43, Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The "err" variable was declared but never used within the
> passt_vhost_user_event() function. This resulted in a dead code
> warning (CID 1612375) from Coverity.
>
> Remove the unused variable and the associated error block
> to resolve the issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

thanks
-- PMM