This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6: fib: hide unused 'pn' variable 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: ipv6-fib-hide-unused-pn-variable.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 d1afc3102faabd97f068661cf9a0b0bf4e3b96cc Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Apr 8 09:42:02 2024 +0200 ipv6: fib: hide unused 'pn' variable [ Upstream commit 74043489fcb5e5ca4074133582b5b8011b67f9e7 ] When CONFIG_IPV6_SUBTREES is disabled, the only user is hidden, causing a 'make W=1' warning: net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c: In function 'fib6_add': net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1388:32: error: variable 'pn' set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable] Add another #ifdef around the variable declaration, matching the other uses in this file. Fixes: 66729e18df08 ("[IPV6] ROUTE: Make sure we have fn->leaf when adding a node on subtree.") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240322131746.904943-1-arnd@xxxxxxxxxx/ Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408074219.3030256-1-arnd@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c index e606374854ce5..8213626434b91 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c @@ -1376,7 +1376,10 @@ int fib6_add(struct fib6_node *root, struct fib6_info *rt, struct nl_info *info, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack) { struct fib6_table *table = rt->fib6_table; - struct fib6_node *fn, *pn = NULL; + struct fib6_node *fn; +#ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_SUBTREES + struct fib6_node *pn = NULL; +#endif int err = -ENOMEM; int allow_create = 1; int replace_required = 0; @@ -1400,9 +1403,9 @@ int fib6_add(struct fib6_node *root, struct fib6_info *rt, goto out; } +#ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_SUBTREES pn = fn; -#ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_SUBTREES if (rt->fib6_src.plen) { struct fib6_node *sn;