Coverity: qcom_swrm_transport_params(): UNUSED_VALUE

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This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20210331 as part of the linux-next scan project:
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You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits:

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128eaf937adb ("soundwire: qcom: add support to missing transport params")

Coverity reported the following:

*** CID 1503591: (UNUSED_VALUE)
/drivers/soundwire/qcom.c: 672 in qcom_swrm_transport_params() 666
667 ret = ctrl->reg_write(ctrl, reg, value);
668

669     	if (pcfg->lane_control != SWR_INVALID_PARAM) {
670     		reg = SWRM_DP_PORT_CTRL_2_BANK(params->port_num, bank);
671     		value = pcfg->lane_control;
vvv     CID 1503591:    (UNUSED_VALUE)
vvv     Assigning value from "(*ctrl->reg_write)(ctrl, reg, value)" to "ret" here, but that stored value is overwritten before it can be used.
672     		ret = ctrl->reg_write(ctrl, reg, value);
673     	}
674
675     	if (pcfg->blk_group_count != SWR_INVALID_PARAM) {
676     		reg = SWRM_DP_BLOCK_CTRL2_BANK(params->port_num, bank);
677     		value = pcfg->blk_group_count;

/drivers/soundwire/qcom.c: 678 in qcom_swrm_transport_params()
672 ret = ctrl->reg_write(ctrl, reg, value);
673 }
674

675     	if (pcfg->blk_group_count != SWR_INVALID_PARAM) {
676     		reg = SWRM_DP_BLOCK_CTRL2_BANK(params->port_num, bank);
677     		value = pcfg->blk_group_count;
vvv     CID 1503591:    (UNUSED_VALUE)
vvv     Assigning value from "(*ctrl->reg_write)(ctrl, reg, value)" to "ret" here, but that stored value is overwritten before it can be used.
678     		ret = ctrl->reg_write(ctrl, reg, value);
679     	}
680
681     	if (pcfg->hstart != SWR_INVALID_PARAM
682     			&& pcfg->hstop != SWR_INVALID_PARAM) {
683     		reg = SWRM_DP_PORT_HCTRL_BANK(params->port_num, bank);

If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first):

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1503591 ("UNUSED_VALUE")

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