From 806c184161eae108cb97aab4629f0940f02a3198 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 23:47:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] remove bizzare dead code (#7444)

---
 src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/serialization/ssh.py | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/serialization/ssh.py b/src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/serialization/ssh.py
index 4ba095342875..f1e917d48a9d 100644
--- a/src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/serialization/ssh.py
+++ b/src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/serialization/ssh.py
@@ -672,9 +672,7 @@ def serialize_ssh_private_key(
     if ciph is not None:
         ciph.encryptor().update_into(buf[ofs:mlen], buf[ofs:])
 
-    txt = _ssh_pem_encode(buf[:mlen])
-    buf[ofs:mlen] = bytearray(slen)
-    return txt
+    return _ssh_pem_encode(buf[:mlen])
 
 
 _SSH_PUBLIC_KEY_TYPES = typing.Union[