The pointer last_sg is being assigned a value at the start of a loop however it is never read and is being re-assigned later on in both brances of an if-statement. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan-build warning: drivers/dma/fsl-edma-common.c:563:3: warning: Value stored to 'last_sg' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma/fsl-edma-common.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma/fsl-edma-common.c b/drivers/dma/fsl-edma-common.c index 3ae05d1446a5..a06a1575a2a5 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/fsl-edma-common.c +++ b/drivers/dma/fsl-edma-common.c @@ -559,9 +559,6 @@ struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *fsl_edma_prep_slave_sg( } for_each_sg(sgl, sg, sg_len, i) { - /* get next sg's physical address */ - last_sg = fsl_desc->tcd[(i + 1) % sg_len].ptcd; - if (direction == DMA_MEM_TO_DEV) { src_addr = sg_dma_address(sg); dst_addr = fsl_chan->dma_dev_addr; -- 2.35.3