The patch titled Subject: fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c: unneeded variable: "status" has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-ocfs2-dlmglue-unneeded-variable-status.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fs-ocfs2-dlmglue-unneeded-variable-status.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-ocfs2-dlmglue-unneeded-variable-status.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c: unneeded variable: "status" fix below issue reported by coccicheck fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c:4410:5-11: Unneeded variable: "status". Return "0" on line 4428 We can not change return type of ocfs2_downconvert_thread as its registered as callback of kthread_create. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190702183237.GA13975@hari-Inspiron-1545 Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@xxxxxxx> Cc: Gang He <ghe@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c~fs-ocfs2-dlmglue-unneeded-variable-status +++ a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c @@ -4407,7 +4407,6 @@ static int ocfs2_downconvert_thread_shou static int ocfs2_downconvert_thread(void *arg) { - int status = 0; struct ocfs2_super *osb = arg; /* only quit once we've been asked to stop and there is no more @@ -4425,7 +4424,7 @@ static int ocfs2_downconvert_thread(void } osb->dc_task = NULL; - return status; + return 0; } void ocfs2_wake_downconvert_thread(struct ocfs2_super *osb) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hariprasad.kelam@xxxxxxxxx are fs-ocfs2-dlmglue-unneeded-variable-status.patch fs-reiserfs-journal-change-return-type-of-dirty_one_transaction.patch