On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 11:40:26PM +0100, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > The variable ret is being assigned with a value that is never read, > the assignment is redundant and can be removed. > > Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> We used to return negative error codes until commit 23021c21055f ("cnic: Improve error recovery on bnx2x devices"). To be honest, I like the deliberate "ret = 0;" because this code will trigger a static checker warning about wrong error codes. Also it looks wrong to human reviewers. We should probably add a comment: /* Deliberately returning success */ return 0; regards, dan carpenter