From: Pavel Emelyanov This function doesn't change the ret's value and thus always returns 0, with a single exception of returning -EAGAIN explicitly. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/signal.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/signal.c~remove-unused-variable-from-send_signal kernel/signal.c --- a/kernel/signal.c~remove-unused-variable-from-send_signal +++ a/kernel/signal.c @@ -661,7 +661,6 @@ static int send_signal(int sig, struct s struct sigpending *signals) { struct sigqueue * q = NULL; - int ret = 0; /* * Deliver the signal to listening signalfds. This must be called @@ -719,7 +718,7 @@ static int send_signal(int sig, struct s out_set: sigaddset(&signals->signal, sig); - return ret; + return 0; } #define LEGACY_QUEUE(sigptr, sig) \ _