From: David Rientjes Remove unused variable in msr_write(). Reported by D Binderman . Cc: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/i386/kernel/msr.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/msr.c~i386-msr-remove-unused-variable arch/i386/kernel/msr.c --- a/arch/i386/kernel/msr.c~i386-msr-remove-unused-variable +++ a/arch/i386/kernel/msr.c @@ -195,7 +195,6 @@ static ssize_t msr_write(struct file *fi { const u32 __user *tmp = (const u32 __user *)buf; u32 data[2]; - size_t rv; u32 reg = *ppos; int cpu = iminor(file->f_dentry->d_inode); int err; @@ -203,7 +202,7 @@ static ssize_t msr_write(struct file *fi if (count % 8) return -EINVAL; /* Invalid chunk size */ - for (rv = 0; count; count -= 8) { + for (; count; count -= 8) { if (copy_from_user(&data, tmp, 8)) return -EFAULT; err = do_wrmsr(cpu, reg, data[0], data[1]); _