This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: compress: Remove unused variable to the 4.4-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: alsa-compress-remove-unused-variable.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a931b9ce93841a5b66b709ba5a244276e345e63b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guneshwor Singh <guneshwor.o.singh@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:49:40 +0530 Subject: ALSA: compress: Remove unused variable From: Guneshwor Singh <guneshwor.o.singh@xxxxxxxxx> commit a931b9ce93841a5b66b709ba5a244276e345e63b upstream. Commit 04c5d5a430fc ("ALSA: compress: Embed struct device") removed the statement that used 'str' but didn't remove the variable itself. So remove it. [Adding stable to Cc since pr_debug() may refer to the uninitialized buffer -- tiwai] Fixes: 04c5d5a430fc ("ALSA: compress: Embed struct device") Signed-off-by: Guneshwor Singh <guneshwor.o.singh@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/compress_offload.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/sound/core/compress_offload.c +++ b/sound/core/compress_offload.c @@ -872,14 +872,13 @@ static const struct file_operations snd_ static int snd_compress_dev_register(struct snd_device *device) { int ret = -EINVAL; - char str[16]; struct snd_compr *compr; if (snd_BUG_ON(!device || !device->device_data)) return -EBADFD; compr = device->device_data; - pr_debug("reg %s for device %s, direction %d\n", str, compr->name, + pr_debug("reg device %s, direction %d\n", compr->name, compr->direction); /* register compressed device */ ret = snd_register_device(SNDRV_DEVICE_TYPE_COMPRESS, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from guneshwor.o.singh@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/alsa-compress-remove-unused-variable.patch