From: Paul Jackson Fix a code warning: symbol 'p' shadows an earlier one This is a reincarnation of Harvey Harrison's patch: cpuset: sparse warnings in cpuset.c Independently, Cliff Wickman moved the affected code, from kernel/cpuset.c to kernel/cgroup.c, in his patch: cpusets: update_cpumask revision Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson Cc: Harvey Harrison Cc: Cliff Wickman Acked-by: Paul Menage Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/cgroup.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/cgroup.c~cgroup-fix-sparse-warning-of-shadow-symbol-in-cgroupc kernel/cgroup.c --- a/kernel/cgroup.c~cgroup-fix-sparse-warning-of-shadow-symbol-in-cgroupc +++ a/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -1908,14 +1908,14 @@ int cgroup_scan_tasks(struct cgroup_scan if (heap->size) { for (i = 0; i < heap->size; i++) { - struct task_struct *p = heap->ptrs[i]; + struct task_struct *q = heap->ptrs[i]; if (i == 0) { - latest_time = p->start_time; - latest_task = p; + latest_time = q->start_time; + latest_task = q; } /* Process the task per the caller's callback */ - scan->process_task(p, scan); - put_task_struct(p); + scan->process_task(q, scan); + put_task_struct(q); } /* * If we had to process any tasks at all, scan again _