On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 11:54:40PM +0530, Suchit Karunakaran wrote:
> The variable 'de' was declared but never used in the ext4_init_new_dir()
> function, causing a compiler warning:
> variable 'de' set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
> Remove the unused declaration to clean up the code and fix the warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Suchit Karunakaran <suchitkarunakaran@xxxxxxxxx>
Gets rid of an annoying warning on my build system, so
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
--D
> ---
> fs/ext4/namei.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
> index d83f91b62317..bb2370829928 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
> @@ -2965,7 +2965,6 @@ int ext4_init_new_dir(handle_t *handle, struct inode *dir,
> struct inode *inode)
> {
> struct buffer_head *dir_block = NULL;
> - struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de;
> ext4_lblk_t block = 0;
> int err;
>
> @@ -2982,7 +2981,6 @@ int ext4_init_new_dir(handle_t *handle, struct inode *dir,
> dir_block = ext4_append(handle, inode, &block);
> if (IS_ERR(dir_block))
> return PTR_ERR(dir_block);
> - de = (struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *)dir_block->b_data;
> err = ext4_init_dirblock(handle, inode, dir_block, dir->i_ino, NULL, 0);
> if (err)
> goto out;
> --
> 2.50.1
>
>
