diff --git a/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c b/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c
index 43ad1176dcb9..e20f8880363f 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c
@@ -1299,7 +1299,6 @@ static bool target_share_equal(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, const char *s1, c
 	 * Resolve share's hostname and check if server address matches.  Otherwise just ignore it
 	 * as we could not have upcall to resolve hostname or failed to convert ip address.
 	 */
-	match = true;
 	extract_unc_hostname(s1, &host, &hostlen);
 	scnprintf(unc, sizeof(unc), "\\\\%.*s", (int)hostlen, host);