The variable 'error' is being assigned a value that is never read, the assignment and the variable and redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan build warning: fs/dax.c:1880:10: warning: Although the value stored to 'error' is used in the enclosing expression, the value is never actually read from 'error' [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dax.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c index 2ababb89918d..cb36c6746fc4 100644 --- a/fs/dax.c +++ b/fs/dax.c @@ -1830,7 +1830,6 @@ static vm_fault_t dax_iomap_pmd_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf, pfn_t *pfnp, vm_fault_t ret = VM_FAULT_FALLBACK; pgoff_t max_pgoff; void *entry; - int error; if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) iter.flags |= IOMAP_WRITE; @@ -1877,7 +1876,7 @@ static vm_fault_t dax_iomap_pmd_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf, pfn_t *pfnp, } iter.pos = (loff_t)xas.xa_index << PAGE_SHIFT; - while ((error = iomap_iter(&iter, ops)) > 0) { + while (iomap_iter(&iter, ops) > 0) { if (iomap_length(&iter) < PMD_SIZE) continue; /* actually breaks out of the loop */ -- 2.39.2