The pointer p is being assigned a new value that is never read. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan-build warning: fs/ufs/dir.c:179:2: warning: Value stored to 'p' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ufs/dir.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ufs/dir.c b/fs/ufs/dir.c index 391efaf1d528..bf19cd882965 100644 --- a/fs/ufs/dir.c +++ b/fs/ufs/dir.c @@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ static bool ufs_check_page(struct page *page) rec_len, ufs_get_de_namlen(sb, p)); goto fail; Eend: - p = (struct ufs_dir_entry *)(kaddr + offs); ufs_error(sb, __func__, "entry in directory #%lu spans the page boundary" "offset=%lu", -- 2.37.3