Drop LIST_HEAD where the variable it declares has never been used. The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ identifier x; @@ - LIST_HEAD(x); ... when != x // </smpl> Fixes: 0e20162ed1e9 ("NFSv4.1 Use MDS auth flavor for data server connection") Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> --- Successfully 0-day tested on 151 configurations. fs/nfs/nfs4client.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c index 2548405da1f7..735c1056a91c 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c @@ -145,7 +145,6 @@ static void nfs4_shutdown_ds_clients(struct nfs_client *clp) { struct nfs4_ds_server *dss; - LIST_HEAD(shutdown_list); while (!list_empty(&clp->cl_ds_clients)) { dss = list_entry(clp->cl_ds_clients.next,