From: Harvey Harrison Use link as the variable name to avoid shadowing the arg. fs/befs/linuxvfs.c:492:8: warning: symbol 'p' shadows an earlier one fs/befs/linuxvfs.c:488:77: originally declared here Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison Cc: "Sergey S. Kostyliov" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/befs/linuxvfs.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/befs/linuxvfs.c~befs-fix-sparse-warning-in-linuxvfsc fs/befs/linuxvfs.c --- a/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c~befs-fix-sparse-warning-in-linuxvfsc +++ a/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c @@ -489,9 +489,9 @@ static void befs_put_link(struct dentry { befs_inode_info *befs_ino = BEFS_I(dentry->d_inode); if (befs_ino->i_flags & BEFS_LONG_SYMLINK) { - char *p = nd_get_link(nd); - if (!IS_ERR(p)) - kfree(p); + char *link = nd_get_link(nd); + if (!IS_ERR(link)) + kfree(link); } } _