The local variable l holds the address of unbuddied[i] which won't change after we take the pool lock. Remove it to avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/z3fold.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/z3fold.c b/mm/z3fold.c index 2f848ea45b4d..adc0b3fa4906 100644 --- a/mm/z3fold.c +++ b/mm/z3fold.c @@ -876,7 +876,6 @@ static inline struct z3fold_header *__z3fold_alloc(struct z3fold_pool *pool, /* Re-check under lock. */ spin_lock(&pool->lock); - l = &unbuddied[i]; if (unlikely(zhdr != list_first_entry(READ_ONCE(l), struct z3fold_header, buddy)) || !z3fold_page_trylock(zhdr)) { -- 2.23.0