We need to return 0 in success case. So this can't be removed.
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> Subject: [EXT] [PATCH] mwifiex: Remove redundant assignment
>
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>
> From: zuoqilin <zuoqi...@yulong.com>
>
> There is no need to define the err variable, and then assign -EINVAL, we can
> directly return -EINVAL.
>
> Signed-off-by: zuoqilin <zuoqi...@yulong.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/ie.c | 7 +------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/ie.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/ie.c
> index 40e99ea..c88213c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/ie.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/ie.c
> @@ -333,7 +333,6 @@ static int mwifiex_uap_parse_tail_ies(struct
> mwifiex_private *priv,
> u16 gen_idx = MWIFIEX_AUTO_IDX_MASK, ie_len = 0;
> int left_len, parsed_len = 0;
> unsigned int token_len;
> - int err = 0;
>
> if (!info->tail || !info->tail_len)
> return 0;
> @@ -351,7 +350,6 @@ static int mwifiex_uap_parse_tail_ies(struct
> mwifiex_private *priv,
> hdr = (void *)(info->tail + parsed_len);
> token_len = hdr->len + sizeof(struct ieee_types_header);
> if (token_len > left_len) {
> - err = -EINVAL;
> goto out;
> }
>
> @@ -377,7 +375,6 @@ static int mwifiex_uap_parse_tail_ies(struct
> mwifiex_private *priv,
> fallthrough;
> default:
> if (ie_len + token_len > IEEE_MAX_IE_SIZE) {
> - err = -EINVAL;
> goto out;
> }
> memcpy(gen_ie->ie_buffer + ie_len, hdr, token_len);
> @@ -397,7
> +394,6 @@ static int mwifiex_uap_parse_tail_ies(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
> if (vendorhdr) {
> token_len = vendorhdr->len + sizeof(struct ieee_types_header);
> if (ie_len + token_len > IEEE_MAX_IE_SIZE) {
> - err = -EINVAL;
> goto out;
> }
> memcpy(gen_ie->ie_buffer + ie_len, vendorhdr, token_len); @@
> -415,7
> +411,6 @@ static int mwifiex_uap_parse_tail_ies(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
>
> if (mwifiex_update_uap_custom_ie(priv, gen_ie, &gen_idx, NULL, NULL,
> NULL, NULL)) {
> - err = -EINVAL;
> goto out;
> }
>
> @@ -423,7 +418,7 @@ static int mwifiex_uap_parse_tail_ies(struct
> mwifiex_private *priv,
>
> out:
> kfree(gen_ie);
> - return err;
> + return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> /* This function parses different IEs-head & tail IEs, beacon IEs,
> --
> 1.9.1