According to LKP, commit [no upstream SHA yet] ("scsi: arcmsr: Remove some set but unused variables") can be furthered to remove the entire statement and not just the unused variable read into. Snipped LKP report: config: x86_64-randconfig-m001-20200719 compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-14) 9.3.0 New smatch warnings: drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c:1490 arcmsr_done4abort_postqueue() warn: statement has no effect 8 drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c:2459 arcmsr_hbaD_postqueue_isr() warn: statement has no effect 8 drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c:3526 arcmsr_hbaD_polling_ccbdone() warn: statement has no effect 8 1a4f550a09f89e Nick Cheng 2007-09-13 1401 static void arcmsr_done4abort_postqueue(struct AdapterControlBlock *acb) 1a4f550a09f89e Nick Cheng 2007-09-13 1402 { [...] 18bc435e0a1de2 Lee Jones 2020-07-13 @1490 pmu->done_qbuffer[doneq_index & 0xFFF].addressHigh; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Delete this line. [...] Cc: support@xxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c b/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c index 5feed135eb26c..23e9e12d588f6 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c @@ -1487,7 +1487,6 @@ static void arcmsr_done4abort_postqueue(struct AdapterControlBlock *acb) ((toggle ^ 0x4000) + 1); doneq_index = pmu->doneq_index; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&acb->doneq_lock, flags); - pmu->done_qbuffer[doneq_index & 0xFFF].addressHigh; addressLow = pmu->done_qbuffer[doneq_index & 0xFFF].addressLow; ccb_cdb_phy = (addressLow & 0xFFFFFFF0); @@ -2456,7 +2455,6 @@ static void arcmsr_hbaD_postqueue_isr(struct AdapterControlBlock *acb) pmu->doneq_index = index_stripped ? (index_stripped | toggle) : ((toggle ^ 0x4000) + 1); doneq_index = pmu->doneq_index; - pmu->done_qbuffer[doneq_index & 0xFFF].addressHigh; addressLow = pmu->done_qbuffer[doneq_index & 0xFFF].addressLow; ccb_cdb_phy = (addressLow & 0xFFFFFFF0); @@ -3523,7 +3521,6 @@ static int arcmsr_hbaD_polling_ccbdone(struct AdapterControlBlock *acb, ((toggle ^ 0x4000) + 1); doneq_index = pmu->doneq_index; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&acb->doneq_lock, flags); - pmu->done_qbuffer[doneq_index & 0xFFF].addressHigh; flag_ccb = pmu->done_qbuffer[doneq_index & 0xFFF].addressLow; ccb_cdb_phy = (flag_ccb & 0xFFFFFFF0); if (acb->cdb_phyadd_hipart) -- 2.25.1