From ccbcd464f0c87d86f82fce9fab59c2164fb98dac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 16:13:17 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unused attributes (#6631)

---
 src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/hashes.py | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/hashes.py b/src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/hashes.py
index fee4e0eea69c..3362c2ab1507 100644
--- a/src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/hashes.py
+++ b/src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/hashes.py
@@ -75,8 +75,6 @@ def __init__(
             raise TypeError("Expected instance of hashes.HashAlgorithm.")
         self._algorithm = algorithm
 
-        self._backend = backend
-
         if ctx is None:
             from cryptography.hazmat.backends.openssl.backend import (
                 backend as ossl,