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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 /kernel/debug | |
| 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 'kernel/debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c index 683a799618ad..9d847ab851db 100644 --- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c +++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c @@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ int vkdb_printf(enum kdb_msgsrc src, const char *fmt, va_list ap) int this_cpu, old_cpu; char *cp, *cp2, *cphold = NULL, replaced_byte = ' '; char *moreprompt = "more> "; - unsigned long uninitialized_var(flags); + unsigned long flags; /* Serialize kdb_printf if multiple cpus try to write at once. * But if any cpu goes recursive in kdb, just print the output, |