Remove unwanted initialization for the variable 'next'. This fixes the clang scan warning: Value stored to 'next' during its initialization is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Gautam Menghani <gautammenghani201@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c index f4fa61dbbee3..3008aa7859e0 100644 --- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c +++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c @@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, size = min(end - start, pgmap_vmemmap_nr(pgmap) * sizeof(struct page)); for (addr = start; addr < end; addr += size) { - unsigned long next = addr, last = addr + size; + unsigned long next, last = addr + size; /* Populate the head page vmemmap page */ pte = vmemmap_populate_address(addr, node, NULL, NULL); -- 2.25.1