[PATCH] security: keys: remove redundant assignment to key_ref

James Morris james.l.morris at oracle.com
Tue Dec 5 00:18:10 UTC 2017


On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, Colin King wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> 
> Variable key_ref is being assigned a value that is never read;
> key_ref is being re-assigned a few statements later.  Hence this
> assignment is redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>

I think a general cleanup in that function to make all of these follow the 
pattern:

	if (something) {
		key_ref = ERR_PTR(-error);
		goto error;
	}

rather than unconditionally setting the error first, would be better, but 
this is a clear enough fix on its own.

Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.morris at oracle.com>


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James Morris
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