There is no need to initialize ret with 0, as all the early error branches simply return constant values, and the default path always reaches ret = kern_path(filename, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path), which will reset ret before the initial value was ever used. Remove this unneeded initialization and keep the code succinct. Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c index 5921951a0d5c..9da10c5efdce 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c @@ -548,7 +548,6 @@ static int __trace_uprobe_create(int argc, const char **argv) bool is_return = false; int i, ret; - ret = 0; ref_ctr_offset = 0; switch (argv[0][0]) { -- 2.17.1