variavle rc in not required as it is just used for unchanged for return, and return is always 0 in the function. Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth(a)gmail.com&gt; --- kernel/audit.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 662c007..409482f 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -686,23 +686,22 @@ static int audit_netlink_ok(struct sk_buff *skb, u16 msg_type) static int audit_log_common_recv_msg(struct audit_buffer **ab, u16 msg_type) { - int rc = 0; uid_t uid = from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()); pid_t pid = task_tgid_nr(current); if (!audit_enabled && msg_type != AUDIT_USER_AVC) { *ab = NULL; - return rc; + return 0; } *ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, msg_type); if (unlikely(!*ab)) - return rc; + return 0; audit_log_format(*ab, "pid=%d uid=%u", pid, uid); audit_log_session_info(*ab); audit_log_task_context(*ab); - return rc; + return 0; } int is_audit_feature_set(int i) -- 1.9.1