+ sysctl-remove-redundant-ret-assignment.patch added to -mm tree

+ sysctl-remove-redundant-ret-assignment.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: sysctl: Remove redundant ret assignment
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     sysctl-remove-redundant-ret-assignment.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/sysctl-remove-redundant-ret-assignment.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/sysctl-remove-redundant-ret-assignment.patch

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From: luo penghao <luo.penghao@zte.com.cn>
Subject: sysctl: Remove redundant ret assignment

Subsequent if judgments will assign new values to ret, so the statement
here should be deleted

The clang_analyzer complains as follows:

fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:

Value stored to 'ret' is never read

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211230063622.586360-1-luo.penghao@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: luo penghao <luo.penghao@zte.com.cn>
Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn>
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c~sysctl-remove-redundant-ret-assignment
+++ a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -1053,7 +1053,6 @@ static int sysctl_follow_link(struct ctl
 	struct ctl_dir *dir;
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = 0;
 	spin_lock(&sysctl_lock);
 	root = (*pentry)->data;
 	set = lookup_header_set(root);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from luo.penghao@zte.com.cn are

sysctl-remove-redundant-ret-assignment.patch