The patch titled befs: fix sparse warning in linuxvfs.c has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is befs-fix-sparse-warning-in-linuxvfsc.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/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: befs: fix sparse warning in linuxvfs.c From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx> Use link as the variable name to avoid shadowing the arg. fs/befs/linuxvfs.c:492:8: warning: symbol 'p' shadows an earlier one fs/befs/linuxvfs.c:488:77: originally declared here Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Sergey S. Kostyliov" <rathamahata@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/befs/linuxvfs.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/befs/linuxvfs.c~befs-fix-sparse-warning-in-linuxvfsc fs/befs/linuxvfs.c --- a/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c~befs-fix-sparse-warning-in-linuxvfsc +++ a/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c @@ -489,9 +489,9 @@ static void befs_put_link(struct dentry { befs_inode_info *befs_ino = BEFS_I(dentry->d_inode); if (befs_ino->i_flags & BEFS_LONG_SYMLINK) { - char *p = nd_get_link(nd); - if (!IS_ERR(p)) - kfree(p); + char *link = nd_get_link(nd); + if (!IS_ERR(link)) + kfree(link); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch dlm-match-signedness-between-dlm_config_info-and-cluster_set.patch ubi-fix-sparse-errors-in-ubih.patch x86-remove-pt_regs-arg-from-smp_thermal_interrupt.patch remove-sparse-warning-for-mmzoneh.patch remove-sparse-warning-for-mmzoneh-checkpatch-fixes.patch adfs-work-around-bogus-sparse-warning.patch debugfs-fix-sparse-warnings.patch coda-add-static-to-functions-in-dirc.patch befs-fix-sparse-warning-in-linuxvfsc.patch jbd-sparse-warnings-in-revokec-journalc.patch jbd2-sparse-warnings-in-revokec-journalc.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html