path is assigned first, so it does not need to initialize the assignment. Signed-off-by: Li zeming <zeming@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index 7669d154c05e0..4ab96f01a6f31 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ __read_extent_tree_block(const char *function, unsigned int line, int ext4_ext_precache(struct inode *inode) { struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode); - struct ext4_ext_path *path = NULL; + struct ext4_ext_path *path; struct buffer_head *bh; int i = 0, depth, ret = 0; -- 2.18.2