[PATCH][next] security: remove redundant assignment to variable rc

[Serge E. Hallyn]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 12:45:32PM +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
> In the case where rc is equal to EOPNOTSUPP it is being reassigned a
> new value of zero that is never read. The following continue statement
> loops back to the next iteration of the lsm_for_each_hook loop and
> rc is being re-assigned a new value from the call to getselfattr.
> The assignment is redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king at gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serge at hallyn.com>

(long as it doesn't go to stable :)

> ---
>  security/security.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
> index 09664e09fec9..6147f27ea92a 100644
> --- a/security/security.c
> +++ b/security/security.c
> @@ -4139,10 +4139,8 @@ int security_getselfattr(unsigned int attr, struct lsm_ctx __user *uctx,
>  		if (base)
>  			uctx = (struct lsm_ctx __user *)(base + total);
>  		rc = scall->hl->hook.getselfattr(attr, uctx, &entrysize, flags);
> -		if (rc == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
> -			rc = 0;
> +		if (rc == -EOPNOTSUPP)
>  			continue;
> -		}
>  		if (rc == -E2BIG) {
>  			rc = 0;
>  			left = 0;
> -- 
> 2.39.5