On Sat, 2019-05-11 at 13:36 +0100, Colin King wrote: > The variable ret is being assigned a value however this is never > read and later it is being reassigned to a new value. The assignment > is redundant and hence can be removed. [] > diff --git a/fs/afs/xattr.c b/fs/afs/xattr.c [] > @@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ static int afs_xattr_get_acl(const struct xattr_handler *handler, > if (ret == 0) { > ret = acl->size; > if (size > 0) { > - ret = -ERANGE; > if (acl->size > size) > return -ERANGE; > memcpy(buffer, acl->data, acl->size); It looks like the ret = acl->size immediately after the memcpy should be removed as well. --- fs/afs/xattr.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/afs/xattr.c b/fs/afs/xattr.c index c81f85003fc7..e21de2f166a4 100644 --- a/fs/afs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/afs/xattr.c @@ -71,11 +71,9 @@ static int afs_xattr_get_acl(const struct xattr_handler *handler, if (ret == 0) { ret = acl->size; if (size > 0) { - ret = -ERANGE; if (acl->size > size) return -ERANGE; memcpy(buffer, acl->data, acl->size); - ret = acl->size; } kfree(acl); }