The assignment to pointer lip is not really required, the pointer lip is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang-scan warning: warning: Although the value stored to 'lip' is used in the enclosing expression, the value is never actually read from 'lip' [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c index 16fbf2a1144c..87db72758d1f 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c @@ -730,11 +730,10 @@ void xfs_ail_push_all_sync( struct xfs_ail *ailp) { - struct xfs_log_item *lip; DEFINE_WAIT(wait); spin_lock(&ailp->ail_lock); - while ((lip = xfs_ail_max(ailp)) != NULL) { + while (xfs_ail_max(ailp)) { prepare_to_wait(&ailp->ail_empty, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); wake_up_process(ailp->ail_task); spin_unlock(&ailp->ail_lock); -- 2.37.3