From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:00:06 +0200 The local variable "b" will be set to an appropriate pointer a bit later. Thus omit the explicit initialisation at the beginning. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c index 06b1b69..1d90131 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c @@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@ static void error_bios(struct bio *bio); static void merge_callback(int read_err, unsigned long write_err, void *context) { struct dm_snapshot *s = context; - struct bio *b = NULL; + struct bio *b; if (read_err || write_err) { if (read_err) -- 2.10.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html