linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs/aio.c: clean code by removing unnecessary assignment

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Message-Id: <20200911214335.18794-1-mateusznosek0@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 11 Sep 2020 23:43:35 +0200
From:   mateusznosek0@...il.com
To:     linux-aio@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@...il.com>, bcrl@...ck.org,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Subject: [PATCH] fs/aio.c: clean code by removing unnecessary assignment

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

Variable 'ret' is reassigned before used otherwise, so the assignment is
unnecessary and therefore can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@...il.com>
---
 fs/aio.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 42154e7c44cb..0a0e5cefa1c4 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -1528,7 +1528,6 @@ static int aio_read(struct kiocb *req, const struct iocb *iocb,
 	file = req->ki_filp;
 	if (unlikely(!(file->f_mode & FMODE_READ)))
 		return -EBADF;
-	ret = -EINVAL;
 	if (unlikely(!file->f_op->read_iter))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
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2.20.1