From: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>

The variable ret is being initialized with a value that is never read
and it is being updated later with a new value.  The initialization is
redundant and can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index d2d7a42d7e0d..8c1c47dd9f46 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_hwrng_unregister);
 
 static int __init hwrng_modinit(void)
 {
-       int ret = -ENOMEM;
+       int ret;
 
        /* kmalloc makes this safe for virt_to_page() in virtio_rng.c */
        rng_buffer = kmalloc(rng_buffer_size(), GFP_KERNEL);
-- 
2.27.0

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