Re: [PATCH] integrity: remove redundant initialization of variable ret

On Tue, 2020-07-28 at 04:05 +1000, James Morris wrote:

On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, Colin King wrote:

quoted

From: Colin Ian King <redacted>

The variable ret is being initialized with a value that is never read
and it is being updated later with a new value.  The initialization is
redundant and can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>
---
 security/integrity/digsig_asymmetric.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/integrity/digsig_asymmetric.c b/security/integrity/digsig_asymmetric.c
index 4e0d6778277e..cfa4127d0518 100644
--- a/security/integrity/digsig_asymmetric.c
+++ b/security/integrity/digsig_asymmetric.c

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ int asymmetric_verify(struct key *keyring, const char *sig,
 	struct public_key_signature pks;
 	struct signature_v2_hdr *hdr = (struct signature_v2_hdr *)sig;
 	struct key *key;
-	int ret = -ENOMEM;
+	int ret;

Assuming Mimi will grab this.


Acked-by: James Morris <redacted>

Yes, thank you for the reminder.

Mimi