The variable ret is assigned zero and never changed in function collect_samle, hence the check for ret < 0 is always false. Fix this by removing ret and the check on ret since these are redundant. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/smb/client/compress.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/smb/client/compress.c b/fs/smb/client/compress.c index 63b5a55b7a57..766b4de13da7 100644 --- a/fs/smb/client/compress.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/compress.c @@ -166,7 +166,6 @@ static int collect_sample(const struct iov_iter *iter, ssize_t max, u8 *sample) loff_t start = iter->xarray_start + iter->iov_offset; pgoff_t last, index = start / PAGE_SIZE; size_t len, off, foff; - ssize_t ret = 0; void *p; int s = 0; @@ -193,9 +192,6 @@ static int collect_sample(const struct iov_iter *iter, ssize_t max, u8 *sample) memcpy(&sample[s], p, len2); kunmap_local(p); - if (ret < 0) - return ret; - s += len2; if (len2 < SZ_2K || s >= max - SZ_2K) -- 2.39.5