This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: remove redundant variable assignment to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: cifs-remove-redundant-variable-assignment.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 65992ea21d7ffa8cfc35048d2a38a591461055a4 Author: Bharath SM <bharathsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 14 23:36:36 2024 +0530 cifs: remove redundant variable assignment [ Upstream commit 2760161d149f8d60c3f767fc62a823a1ead9d367 ] This removes an unnecessary variable assignment. The assigned value will be overwritten by cifs_fattr_to_inode before it is accessed, making the line redundant. Signed-off-by: Bharath SM <bharathsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/inode.c b/fs/smb/client/inode.c index 67ad8eeaa7665..b304215a4d668 100644 --- a/fs/smb/client/inode.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/inode.c @@ -401,7 +401,6 @@ cifs_get_file_info_unix(struct file *filp) cifs_unix_basic_to_fattr(&fattr, &find_data, cifs_sb); } else if (rc == -EREMOTE) { cifs_create_junction_fattr(&fattr, inode->i_sb); - rc = 0; } else goto cifs_gfiunix_out; @@ -846,7 +845,6 @@ cifs_get_file_info(struct file *filp) break; case -EREMOTE: cifs_create_junction_fattr(&fattr, inode->i_sb); - rc = 0; break; case -EOPNOTSUPP: case -EINVAL: