Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Jason Yan <> | Subject | [PATCH] ata: Eliminate usage of uninitialized_var() macro | Date | Mon, 15 Jun 2020 12:02:36 +0800 |
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This is an effort to eliminate the uninitialized_var() macro[1].
The use of this macro is the wrong solution because it forces off ANY analysis by the compiler for a given variable. It even masks "unused variable" warnings.
Quoted from Linus[2]:
"It's a horrible thing to use, in that it adds extra cruft to the source code, and then shuts up a compiler warning (even the _reliable_ warnings from gcc)."
The gcc option "-Wmaybe-uninitialized" has been disabled and this change will not produce any warnnings even with "make W=1".
[1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/81 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com> --- drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c index 435781a16875..fcb00f2825fe 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static ssize_t ata_scsi_park_show(struct device *device, struct ata_link *link; struct ata_device *dev; unsigned long now; - unsigned int uninitialized_var(msecs); + unsigned int msecs; int rc = 0; ap = ata_shost_to_port(sdev->host); -- 2.25.4
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