Re: [PATCH] lib: remove redundant assignment to variable ret

[Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 01:45:57PM +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Variable ret is being assigned a value that is never read. If the
> for-loop is entered then ret is immediately re-assigned a new
> value. If the for-loop is not executed ret is never read. The
> assignment is redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>


Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>

BR,
Jarkko

> ---
>  lib/asn1_encoder.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/asn1_encoder.c b/lib/asn1_encoder.c
> index 27bbe891714f..0fd3c454a468 100644
> --- a/lib/asn1_encoder.c
> +++ b/lib/asn1_encoder.c
> @@ -164,8 +164,6 @@ asn1_encode_oid(unsigned char *data, const unsigned char *end_data,
>  
>  	data_len -= 3;
>  
> -	ret = 0;
> -
>  	for (i = 2; i < oid_len; i++) {
>  		ret = asn1_encode_oid_digit(&d, &data_len, oid[i]);
>  		if (ret < 0)
> -- 
> 2.33.1
>