The variable idx is assigned a value and is never read. The variable is not used and is redundant, remove it. Cleans up clang scan build warning: warning: Although the value stored to 'idx' is used in the enclosing expression, the value is never actually read from 'idx' [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ntfs/file.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ntfs/file.c b/fs/ntfs/file.c index e1392a9b8ceb..a8abe2296514 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/file.c +++ b/fs/ntfs/file.c @@ -1772,11 +1772,11 @@ static ssize_t ntfs_perform_write(struct file *file, struct iov_iter *i, last_vcn = -1; do { VCN vcn; - pgoff_t idx, start_idx; + pgoff_t start_idx; unsigned ofs, do_pages, u; size_t copied; - start_idx = idx = pos >> PAGE_SHIFT; + start_idx = pos >> PAGE_SHIFT; ofs = pos & ~PAGE_MASK; bytes = PAGE_SIZE - ofs; do_pages = 1; -- 2.35.1