diff --git a/lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py b/lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py
index d87860ac62..2f98e048be 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ def modify_module(module_name, module_path, module_args, task_vars=dict(), modul
     (module_data, module_style, shebang) = _find_snippet_imports(module_name, module_data, module_path, module_args, task_vars, module_compression)
 
     if module_style == 'binary':
-        return (module_path, module_data, module_style, shebang)
+        return (module_data, module_style, shebang)
     elif shebang is None:
         lines = module_data.split(b"\n", 1)
         if lines[0].startswith(b"#!"):
@@ -762,4 +762,4 @@ def modify_module(module_name, module_path, module_args, task_vars=dict(), modul
     else:
         shebang = to_bytes(shebang, errors='strict')
 
-    return (module_path, module_data, module_style, shebang)
+    return (module_data, module_style, shebang)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
index 6182368a40..9414a149fc 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ class ActionBase(with_metaclass(ABCMeta, object)):
                                    "run 'git submodule update --init --recursive' to correct this problem." % (module_name))
 
         # insert shared code and arguments into the module
-        (module_path, module_data, module_style, module_shebang) = modify_module(module_name, module_path, module_args, task_vars=task_vars, module_compression=self._play_context.module_compression)
+        (module_data, module_style, module_shebang) = modify_module(module_name, module_path, module_args, task_vars=task_vars, module_compression=self._play_context.module_compression)
 
         return (module_style, module_shebang, module_data, module_path)