The variable error will be assigned correctly before it is used, the initialization is redundant, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mprotect.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c index 041beeb5fad6..0420c3ed936c 100644 --- a/mm/mprotect.c +++ b/mm/mprotect.c @@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ static int do_mprotect_pkey(unsigned long start, size_t len, { unsigned long nstart, end, tmp, reqprot; struct vm_area_struct *vma, *prev; - int error = -EINVAL; + int error; const int grows = prot & (PROT_GROWSDOWN|PROT_GROWSUP); const bool rier = (current->personality & READ_IMPLIES_EXEC) && (prot & PROT_READ); -- 2.17.1