This patch merges an assignment with an immediately following return of
the assigned variable.  The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used
to make this transformation:

@@
expression ret;
identifier f;
@@

-ret =
+return
     f(...);
-return ret;

A variable that became unused due to this transformation was also removed.

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>