The pointer mid is being initialized with a value that is never read, it is being re-assigned and used inside a for-loop. Remove the redundant initialization. Cleans up clang scan build warning: arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:88:7: warning: Value stored to 'mid' during its initialization is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c index 7e574cf3bf8a..d00c28aaa5be 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static struct orc_entry *__orc_find(int *ip_table, struct orc_entry *u_table, { int *first = ip_table; int *last = ip_table + num_entries - 1; - int *mid = first, *found = first; + int *mid, *found = first; if (!num_entries) return NULL; -- 2.39.2