diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitArguments.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitArguments.scala
index 087dd4d633db0d759aa7b04a2d9aaeeff21f5963..c21f1529a183743c4385e72b19e0956cf0dbd323 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitArguments.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitArguments.scala
@@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ private[spark] class SparkSubmitArguments(args: Seq[String]) {
 
   /** Fill in values by parsing user options. */
   private def parseOpts(opts: Seq[String]): Unit = {
-    var inSparkOpts = true
     val EQ_SEPARATED_OPT="""(--[^=]+)=(.+)""".r
 
     // Delineates parsing of Spark options from parsing of user options.