mutate the incoming hash

I'd rather not, but this object should be local to the caller at this
point so it seems less bad than creating a bunch more objects

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/json_compat.rb b/lib/chef/json_compat.rb
index 68db64bef8..789884bcdf 100644
--- a/lib/chef/json_compat.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/json_compat.rb
@@ -77,11 +77,10 @@ class Chef
       end
 
       def map_hash_to_rb_obj(json_hash)
-        mapped_hash = {}
         json_hash.each do |key, value|
-          mapped_hash[key] = map_to_rb_obj(value)
+          json_hash[key] = map_to_rb_obj(value)
         end
-        mapped_hash
+        json_hash
       end
 
       def to_json(obj, opts = nil)