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author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2020-06-03 22:09:38 +0200 |
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committer | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2020-07-16 21:35:15 +0200 |
commit | 3f649ab728cda8038259d8f14492fe400fbab911 (patch) | |
tree | d1552706b153fa98d4c9e99eb2d64913fda5e014 /arch/ia64/kernel/process.c | |
parent | checkpatch: Remove awareness of uninitialized_var() macro (diff) | |
download | linux-3f649ab728cda8038259d8f14492fe400fbab911.tar.xz linux-3f649ab728cda8038259d8f14492fe400fbab911.zip |
treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
Using uninitialized_var() is dangerous as it papers over real bugs[1]
(or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings
(e.g. "unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized,
either simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes.
In preparation for removing[2] the[3] macro[4], remove all remaining
needless uses with the following script:
git grep '\buninitialized_var\b' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u | \
xargs perl -pi -e \
's/\buninitialized_var\(([^\)]+)\)/\1/g;
s:\s*/\* (GCC be quiet|to make compiler happy) \*/$::g;'
drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c was manually tweaked to avoid
pathological white-space.
No outstanding warnings were found building allmodconfig with GCC 9.3.0
for x86_64, i386, arm64, arm, powerpc, powerpc64le, s390x, mips, sparc64,
alpha, and m68k.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@mail.gmail.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> # drivers/infiniband and mlx4/mlx5
Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> # IB
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> # wireless drivers
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> # erofs
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ia64/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/ia64/kernel/process.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c index 96dfb9e4b16f..da55b41ae33e 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c @@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ static void do_copy_task_regs (struct task_struct *task, struct unw_frame_info *info, void *arg) { unsigned long mask, sp, nat_bits = 0, ar_rnat, urbs_end, cfm; - unsigned long uninitialized_var(ip); /* GCC be quiet */ + unsigned long ip; elf_greg_t *dst = arg; struct pt_regs *pt; char nat; |