From: Akinobu Mita The comment in ext[234]_new_blocks() describes about "i". But there is no local variable called "i" in that scope. I guess it has been renamed to group_no. Cc: Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/ext2/balloc.c | 4 ++-- fs/ext3/balloc.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/balloc.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/ext2/balloc.c~ext-fix-comment-for-nonexistent-variable fs/ext2/balloc.c --- a/fs/ext2/balloc.c~ext-fix-comment-for-nonexistent-variable +++ a/fs/ext2/balloc.c @@ -1315,8 +1315,8 @@ retry_alloc: smp_rmb(); /* - * Now search the rest of the groups. We assume that - * i and gdp correctly point to the last group visited. + * Now search the rest of the groups. We assume that + * group_no and gdp correctly point to the last group visited. */ for (bgi = 0; bgi < ngroups; bgi++) { group_no++; diff -puN fs/ext3/balloc.c~ext-fix-comment-for-nonexistent-variable fs/ext3/balloc.c --- a/fs/ext3/balloc.c~ext-fix-comment-for-nonexistent-variable +++ a/fs/ext3/balloc.c @@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@ retry_alloc: /* * Now search the rest of the groups. We assume that - * i and gdp correctly point to the last group visited. + * group_no and gdp correctly point to the last group visited. */ for (bgi = 0; bgi < ngroups; bgi++) { group_no++; diff -puN fs/ext4/balloc.c~ext-fix-comment-for-nonexistent-variable fs/ext4/balloc.c --- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c~ext-fix-comment-for-nonexistent-variable +++ a/fs/ext4/balloc.c @@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ retry_alloc: /* * Now search the rest of the groups. We assume that - * i and gdp correctly point to the last group visited. + * group_no and gdp correctly point to the last group visited. */ for (bgi = 0; bgi < ngroups; bgi++) { group_no++; _