The patch titled Subject: nilfs2: remove redundant pointer sbufs has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is nilfs2-remove-redundant-pointer-sbufs.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/nilfs2-remove-redundant-pointer-sbufs.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/nilfs2-remove-redundant-pointer-sbufs.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: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: nilfs2: remove redundant pointer sbufs Pointer sbufs is being assigned a value but it's not being used later on. The pointer is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up scan-build static analysis warning: fs/nilfs2/page.c:203:8: warning: Although the value stored to 'sbufs' is used in the enclosing expression, the value is never actually read from 'sbufs' [deadcode.DeadStores] sbh = sbufs = page_buffers(src); Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211211180955.550380-1-colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1640712476-15136-1-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nilfs2/page.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nilfs2/page.c~nilfs2-remove-redundant-pointer-sbufs +++ a/fs/nilfs2/page.c @@ -195,12 +195,12 @@ void nilfs_page_bug(struct page *page) */ static void nilfs_copy_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src, int copy_dirty) { - struct buffer_head *dbh, *dbufs, *sbh, *sbufs; + struct buffer_head *dbh, *dbufs, *sbh; unsigned long mask = NILFS_BUFFER_INHERENT_BITS; BUG_ON(PageWriteback(dst)); - sbh = sbufs = page_buffers(src); + sbh = page_buffers(src); if (!page_has_buffers(dst)) create_empty_buffers(dst, sbh->b_size, 0); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx are mm-migrate-remove-redundant-variables-used-in-a-for-loop.patch nilfs2-remove-redundant-pointer-sbufs.patch kernel-sysctlc-remove-unused-variable-ten_thousand.patch