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

From: James Morris
Date: Mon Dec 04 2017 - 21:09:02 EST


On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, Colin King wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxxx>


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James Morris
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