The variable is being assigned an value and then is being re-assigned a new value in the next statement. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan build warning: net/handshake/tlshd.c:216:2: warning: Value stored to 'ret' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/handshake/tlshd.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/handshake/tlshd.c b/net/handshake/tlshd.c index d697f68c598c..d6f52839827e 100644 --- a/net/handshake/tlshd.c +++ b/net/handshake/tlshd.c @@ -213,7 +213,6 @@ static int tls_handshake_accept(struct handshake_req *req, if (!hdr) goto out_cancel; - ret = -EMSGSIZE; ret = nla_put_s32(msg, HANDSHAKE_A_ACCEPT_SOCKFD, fd); if (ret < 0) goto out_cancel; -- 2.39.2