Local variable _ret_ is assigned to a constant value and it is never
updated again. Remove this variable and the dead code it guards.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 140761
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>