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This patch merges an assignment with an immediately following return of the assigned variable. It also removes a variable that becomes unused due to this transformation. The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used to make this transformation: @r@ identifier ret; identifier f; @@ -ret = +return f(...); -return ret; @@ identifier r.ret; expression e1; type t; @@ ( -t ret = e1; | -t ret; ) ... when != ret when strict Signed-off-by: Mahati Chamarthy <mahati.chamarthy@gmail.com> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>