diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/msr.c b/arch/i386/kernel/msr.c
index 44470fe..1d0a55e 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/msr.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/msr.c
@@ -172,7 +172,6 @@
 {
 	u32 __user *tmp = (u32 __user *) buf;
 	u32 data[2];
-	size_t rv;
 	u32 reg = *ppos;
 	int cpu = iminor(file->f_dentry->d_inode);
 	int err;
@@ -180,7 +179,7 @@
 	if (count % 8)
 		return -EINVAL;	/* Invalid chunk size */
 
-	for (rv = 0; count; count -= 8) {
+	for (; count; count -= 8) {
 		err = do_rdmsr(cpu, reg, &data[0], &data[1]);
 		if (err)
 			return err;