diff --git a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
index feca75b07fdd..1c909183c42a 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
@@ -191,13 +191,10 @@ static int traverse_pages_block(unsigned nelem, size_t size,
 				void *state)
 {
 	void *pagedata;
-	unsigned pageidx;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	BUG_ON(size > PAGE_SIZE);
 
-	pageidx = PAGE_SIZE;
-
 	while (nelem) {
 		int nr = (PAGE_SIZE/size);
 		struct page *page;