The local variable q is used to pass it to the blk_queue_discard(). We can get away with using lo->lo_queue instead of storing in a local variable which is not used anywhere else. No functional change in this patch. Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/loop.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index b0a8d5b0641f..f9f352c7a56f 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -434,12 +434,11 @@ static int lo_fallocate(struct loop_device *lo, struct request *rq, loff_t pos, * information. */ struct file *file = lo->lo_backing_file; - struct request_queue *q = lo->lo_queue; int ret; mode |= FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE; - if (!blk_queue_discard(q)) { + if (!blk_queue_discard(lo->lo_queue)) { ret = -EOPNOTSUPP; goto out; } -- 2.22.1