diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-common b/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-common
index 702c73c8c..a76aab1f1 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-common
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-common
@@ -184,9 +184,6 @@ download_and_verify() {
 	if ! verify_md5_checksum "$dest_file" "$md5_file"; then
 		retry 15 10 "curl --fail --retry 5 --retry-delay 15 -L '$source_url' --output '$dest_file'" "" ""
 		retry 15 10 "curl --fail --retry 5 --retry-delay 15 -L '$source_md5_url' --output '$md5_file'"  "" ""
-			
-		SOURCEHASH=$(md5sum "$dest_file" | awk '{ print $1 }')
-		HASH=$(cat "$md5_file")
 
 		if verify_md5_checksum "$dest_file" "$md5_file"; then
 		  echo "Source file and checksum are good."