lkdtm: remove redundant initialization of ret

The variable ret is being initialized with the value -EINVAL however
this value is never read and ret is being re-assigned later on. Hence
the initialization is redundant and can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
index bae3b3763f3ec9240c34347c290bb26e5e47e1f6..d416359daf069f2b779a9afb45e9fe6520b4c3e7 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ static int __init lkdtm_module_init(void)
 {
        struct crashpoint *crashpoint = NULL;
        const struct crashtype *crashtype = NULL;
-       int ret = -EINVAL;
+       int ret;
        int i;
 
        /* Neither or both of these need to be set */