There is no point to use a local variable to store the character when we can pass it directly. This assignment comes from era when we used to do get_user(c, b). We no longer need this, so fix this. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c index 8b2bacb3e40d..f6fa4dbdf78f 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c +++ b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c @@ -2373,8 +2373,7 @@ static ssize_t n_tty_write(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file, nr -= num; if (nr == 0) break; - c = *b; - if (process_output(c, tty) < 0) + if (process_output(*b, tty) < 0) break; b++; nr--; } -- 2.41.0