This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: remove redundant variable tcon_exist to the 6.6-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: cifs-remove-redundant-variable-tcon_exist.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 13bcd859cb288d7e036bd5509a26abf84ef823a2 Author: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jan 16 10:51:34 2024 +0000 cifs: remove redundant variable tcon_exist [ Upstream commit 8ca5d2641be217a78a891d4dbe2a46232d1d8eb9 ] The variable tcon_exist is being assigned however it is never read, the variable is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan build warning: warning: Although the value stored to 'tcon_exist' is used in the enclosing expression, the value is never actually readfrom 'tcon_exist' [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c index 51ff9a967c503..3f9448b5ada9b 100644 --- a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c @@ -3979,7 +3979,7 @@ void smb2_reconnect_server(struct work_struct *work) struct cifs_ses *ses, *ses2; struct cifs_tcon *tcon, *tcon2; struct list_head tmp_list, tmp_ses_list; - bool tcon_exist = false, ses_exist = false; + bool ses_exist = false; bool tcon_selected = false; int rc; bool resched = false; @@ -4025,7 +4025,7 @@ void smb2_reconnect_server(struct work_struct *work) if (tcon->need_reconnect || tcon->need_reopen_files) { tcon->tc_count++; list_add_tail(&tcon->rlist, &tmp_list); - tcon_selected = tcon_exist = true; + tcon_selected = true; } } /* @@ -4034,7 +4034,7 @@ void smb2_reconnect_server(struct work_struct *work) */ if (ses->tcon_ipc && ses->tcon_ipc->need_reconnect) { list_add_tail(&ses->tcon_ipc->rlist, &tmp_list); - tcon_selected = tcon_exist = true; + tcon_selected = true; cifs_smb_ses_inc_refcount(ses); } /*