The code gets the dentry, but the dentry is not used, remove the code. Code refinement, no functional changes. Signed-off-by: Yuezhang Mo <Yuezhang.Mo@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andy Wu <Andy.Wu@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Aoyama Wataru <wataru.aoyama@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/exfat/namei.c | 9 +-------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/exfat/namei.c b/fs/exfat/namei.c index 01e4e8c60bbe..347c8df45bd0 100644 --- a/fs/exfat/namei.c +++ b/fs/exfat/namei.c @@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@ static int __exfat_rename(struct inode *old_parent_inode, struct exfat_inode_info *new_ei = NULL; unsigned int new_entry_type = TYPE_UNUSED; int new_entry = 0; - struct buffer_head *old_bh, *new_bh = NULL; + struct buffer_head *new_bh = NULL; /* check the validity of pointer parameters */ if (new_path == NULL || strlen(new_path) == 0) @@ -1191,13 +1191,6 @@ static int __exfat_rename(struct inode *old_parent_inode, EXFAT_I(old_parent_inode)->flags); dentry = ei->entry; - ep = exfat_get_dentry(sb, &olddir, dentry, &old_bh); - if (!ep) { - ret = -EIO; - goto out; - } - brelse(old_bh); - /* check whether new dir is existing directory and empty */ if (new_inode) { ret = -EIO; -- 2.25.1