Avoiding some potentially confusing name space clashes

Avoiding some potentially confusing name space clashes

We have local variables or function arguments with the same names as
function static variables (or in one case, function arguments).

While all the current code was correct, it could potentially cause
confusion when chasing bugs or reviewing patches. This should make things
clearer.

Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>