+ fs-ntfs-remove-redundant-variable-idx.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The patch titled
     Subject: fs/ntfs: remove redundant variable idx
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     fs-ntfs-remove-redundant-variable-idx.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/fs-ntfs-remove-redundant-variable-idx.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Subject: fs/ntfs: remove redundant variable idx
Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 10:36:46 +0100

The variable idx is assigned a value and is never read.  The variable is
not used and is redundant, remove it.

Cleans up clang scan build warning:
warning: Although the value stored to 'idx' is used in the enclosing
expression, the value is never actually read from 'idx'
[deadcode.DeadStores]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220517093646.93628-2-colin.i.king@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/ntfs/file.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ntfs/file.c~fs-ntfs-remove-redundant-variable-idx
+++ a/fs/ntfs/file.c
@@ -1772,11 +1772,11 @@ static ssize_t ntfs_perform_write(struct
 	last_vcn = -1;
 	do {
 		VCN vcn;
-		pgoff_t idx, start_idx;
+		pgoff_t start_idx;
 		unsigned ofs, do_pages, u;
 		size_t copied;
 
-		start_idx = idx = pos >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+		start_idx = pos >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 		ofs = pos & ~PAGE_MASK;
 		bytes = PAGE_SIZE - ofs;
 		do_pages = 1;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from colin.i.king@gmail.com are

fs-ntfs-remove-redundant-variable-idx.patch