This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfsd: remove redundant assignment to variable len to the 5.10-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: nfsd-remove-redundant-assignment-to-variable-len.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 728dede9ea983f6bd0d2eb3b29966e0ee6967c34 Author: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jun 28 22:25:25 2022 +0100 nfsd: remove redundant assignment to variable len [ Upstream commit 842e00ac3aa3b4a4f7f750c8ab54f8578fc875d3 ] Variable len is being assigned a value zero and this is never read, it is being re-assigned later. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan-build warning: fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:636:2: warning: Value stored to 'len' is never read Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c index 0621c2faf2424..66c352bf61b1d 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c @@ -633,7 +633,6 @@ static ssize_t __write_versions(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size) } /* Now write current state into reply buffer */ - len = 0; sep = ""; remaining = SIMPLE_TRANSACTION_LIMIT; for (num=2 ; num <= 4 ; num++) {