diff --git a/jax/_src/interpreters/pxla.py b/jax/_src/interpreters/pxla.py
index b9cdc58df..60dd5d073 100644
--- a/jax/_src/interpreters/pxla.py
+++ b/jax/_src/interpreters/pxla.py
@@ -3286,7 +3286,7 @@ def check_array_xla_sharding_layout_match(
 
 
 def get_array_mapping(pspec: PartitionSpec) -> ArrayMappingOrAutoOrUnspecified:
-  parsed_pspec, _, _ = sharding_impls.prepare_axis_resources(
+  parsed_pspec = sharding_impls.prepare_axis_resources(
       pspec, "pspec to array_mapping")
   return _get_array_mapping(parsed_pspec)
 
diff --git a/jax/_src/pjit.py b/jax/_src/pjit.py
index fcae50864..69d29c6e0 100644
--- a/jax/_src/pjit.py
+++ b/jax/_src/pjit.py
@@ -378,8 +378,8 @@ def _parse_jit_arguments(fun: Callable, in_shardings: Any, out_shardings: Any,
     # rather than raising an error. https://github.com/google/jax/issues/2367
     in_shardings = tuple(in_shardings)
 
-  in_shardings, _, _ = prepare_axis_resources(in_shardings, 'in_shardings')
-  out_shardings, _, _ = prepare_axis_resources(out_shardings, 'out_shardings')
+  in_shardings = prepare_axis_resources(in_shardings, 'in_shardings')
+  out_shardings = prepare_axis_resources(out_shardings, 'out_shardings')
 
   user_specified_in_shardings = (in_shardings is not None and
                                  not is_unspecified(in_shardings))
@@ -2163,7 +2163,7 @@ def with_sharding_constraint(x, shardings):
   .. _Distributed arrays and automatic parallelization: https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/Distributed_arrays_and_automatic_parallelization.html
   """
   x_flat, tree = tree_flatten(x)
-  user_shardings, _, _ = prepare_axis_resources(
+  user_shardings = prepare_axis_resources(
       shardings, "shardings", allow_unconstrained_dims=True)
   del shardings
 
diff --git a/jax/_src/sharding_impls.py b/jax/_src/sharding_impls.py
index 8b62e19b4..305fafb47 100644
--- a/jax/_src/sharding_impls.py
+++ b/jax/_src/sharding_impls.py
@@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ def preprocess(mesh, spec, parsed_pspec):
   # TODO(yaskatariya): Remove this and replace this with a normalized
   # representation of Parsed Pspec
   if parsed_pspec is None:
-    parsed_pspec, _, _ = prepare_axis_resources(
+    parsed_pspec = prepare_axis_resources(
         PartitionSpec() if spec is None else spec,
         "NamedSharding spec", allow_unconstrained_dims=True)
 
@@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@ def prepare_axis_resources(axis_resources,
           entry, what, allow_unconstrained_dims=allow_unconstrained_dims))
 
   _check_unique_resources(new_entries, arg_name)
-  return tree_util.tree_unflatten(treedef, new_entries), new_entries, treedef
+  return tree_util.tree_unflatten(treedef, new_entries)
 
 
 def _check_unique_resources(axis_resources, arg_name):