The check in the last return statement is unnecessary, we can just return the ret variable. But we can simplify the function further by returning 0 immediately if we find the section size and -ENOENT otherwise. Thus we can also remove the ret variable. Signed-off-by: Yuntao Wang <ytcoode@xxxxxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index 7e978feaf822..776b8e034d62 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -1374,22 +1374,20 @@ static bool bpf_map_type__is_map_in_map(enum bpf_map_type type) static int find_elf_sec_sz(const struct bpf_object *obj, const char *name, __u32 *size) { - int ret = -ENOENT; Elf_Data *data; Elf_Scn *scn; - *size = 0; if (!name) return -EINVAL; scn = elf_sec_by_name(obj, name); data = elf_sec_data(obj, scn); if (data) { - ret = 0; /* found it */ *size = data->d_size; + return 0; /* found it */ } - return *size ? 0 : ret; + return -ENOENT; } static int find_elf_var_offset(const struct bpf_object *obj, const char *name, __u32 *off) -- 2.35.0.rc2