This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bcache: remove redundant assignment to variable cur_idx to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: bcache-remove-redundant-assignment-to-variable-cur_i.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 8d27b01cf63c07550a6a95386bd04eef94b3cdb1 Author: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Nov 20 13:24:56 2023 +0800 bcache: remove redundant assignment to variable cur_idx [ Upstream commit be93825f0e6428c2d3f03a6e4d447dc48d33d7ff ] Variable cur_idx is being initialized with a value that is never read, it is being re-assigned later in a while-loop. Remove the redundant assignment. Cleans up clang scan build warning: drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c:916:2: warning: Value stored to 'cur_idx' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231120052503.6122-4-colyli@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c b/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c index 01c7c6ca4789f..18c6e0d2877b5 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c @@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ static int bch_dirty_init_thread(void *arg) int cur_idx, prev_idx, skip_nr; k = p = NULL; - cur_idx = prev_idx = 0; + prev_idx = 0; bch_btree_iter_init(&c->root->keys, &iter, NULL); k = bch_btree_iter_next_filter(&iter, &c->root->keys, bch_ptr_bad);