linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/shmem.c: Clean code by removing unnecessary assignment

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Message-Id: <20200301152832.24595-1-mateusznosek0@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun,  1 Mar 2020 16:28:32 +0100
From:   mateusznosek0@...il.com
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@...il.com>, hughd@...gle.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm/shmem.c: Clean code by removing unnecessary assignment

From: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@...il.com>

Previously 0 was assigned to variable 'error'
but the variable was never read before reassignemnt later.
So the assignment can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@...il.com>
---
 mm/shmem.c | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 31b4bcc95f17..84eb14f5509c 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -3116,12 +3116,9 @@ static int shmem_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, const char *s
 
 	error = security_inode_init_security(inode, dir, &dentry->d_name,
 					     shmem_initxattrs, NULL);
-	if (error) {
-		if (error != -EOPNOTSUPP) {
-			iput(inode);
-			return error;
-		}
-		error = 0;
+	if (error && error != -EOPNOTSUPP) {
+		iput(inode);
+		return error;
 	}
 
 	inode->i_size = len-1;
-- 
2.17.1