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ACPI: Eliminate usage of uninitialized_var() macro

Message ID 20200615040047.3535543-1-yanaijie@huawei.com
State Accepted
Commit 134043cd64c96906c7c04515a745d2073d4d1939
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Series ACPI: Eliminate usage of uninitialized_var() macro | expand

Commit Message

Jason Yan June 15, 2020, 4 a.m. UTC
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>
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 drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c
index e7dc0133f817..6cc4c92d9ff9 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@  static void round_robin_cpu(unsigned int tsk_index)
 	cpumask_var_t tmp;
 	int cpu;
 	unsigned long min_weight = -1;
-	unsigned long uninitialized_var(preferred_cpu);
+	unsigned long preferred_cpu;
 
 	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&tmp, GFP_KERNEL))
 		return;