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author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2020-06-03 13:09:38 -0700 |
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committer | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2020-07-16 12:35:15 -0700 |
commit | 3f649ab728cda8038259d8f14492fe400fbab911 (patch) | |
tree | d1552706b153fa98d4c9e99eb2d64913fda5e014 /kernel/dma | |
parent | d8b44b58a7073b4d74b3394131eb449e8469396b (diff) | |
download | lwn-3f649ab728cda8038259d8f14492fe400fbab911.tar.gz lwn-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/dma')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/dma/debug.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/dma/debug.c b/kernel/dma/debug.c index 36c962a86bf2..d628ab09d97b 100644 --- a/kernel/dma/debug.c +++ b/kernel/dma/debug.c @@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ static int device_dma_allocations(struct device *dev, struct dma_debug_entry **o static int dma_debug_device_change(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action, void *data) { struct device *dev = data; - struct dma_debug_entry *uninitialized_var(entry); + struct dma_debug_entry *entry; int count; if (dma_debug_disabled()) |