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Date:   Wed,  1 Jul 2020 14:46:34 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] integrity: remove redundant initialization of variable ret

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

The variable ret is being initialized with a value that is never read
and it is being updated later with a new value.  The initialization is
redundant and can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 security/integrity/digsig_asymmetric.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/integrity/digsig_asymmetric.c b/security/integrity/digsig_asymmetric.c
index 4e0d6778277e..cfa4127d0518 100644
--- a/security/integrity/digsig_asymmetric.c
+++ b/security/integrity/digsig_asymmetric.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ int asymmetric_verify(struct key *keyring, const char *sig,
 	struct public_key_signature pks;
 	struct signature_v2_hdr *hdr = (struct signature_v2_hdr *)sig;
 	struct key *key;
-	int ret = -ENOMEM;
+	int ret;
 
 	if (siglen <= sizeof(*hdr))
 		return -EBADMSG;
-- 
2.27.0

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