From: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@xxxxxxxxx> Previously 0 was assigned to variable 'error' but the variable was never read before reassignemnt later. So the assignment can be removed. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 31b4bcc95f17..84eb14f5509c 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -3116,12 +3116,9 @@ static int shmem_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, const char *s error = security_inode_init_security(inode, dir, &dentry->d_name, shmem_initxattrs, NULL); - if (error) { - if (error != -EOPNOTSUPP) { - iput(inode); - return error; - } - error = 0; + if (error && error != -EOPNOTSUPP) { + iput(inode); + return error; } inode->i_size = len-1; -- 2.17.1