diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
index d2eb3c5936822832f6087acaf8e9d44943530914..444a4fb64328cd78ec12cad69b533857a9e166b2 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ static int setup_indexes(struct dm_table *t)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	/* set up internal nodes, bottom-up */
-	for (i = t->depth - 2, total = 0; i >= 0; i--) {
+	for (i = t->depth - 2; i >= 0; i--) {
 		t->index[i] = indexes;
 		indexes += (KEYS_PER_NODE * t->counts[i]);
 		setup_btree_index(i, t);