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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2020-06-03 23:09:38 +0300 |
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| committer | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2020-07-16 22:35:31 +0300 |
| commit | 63a0895d960aa3d3653ef0ecad5bd8579388f14b (patch) | |
| tree | 8c478682c2e05e4b1906235715fa4a92be2d2361 /tools/include | |
| parent | 3f649ab728cda8038259d8f14492fe400fbab911 (diff) | |
| download | linux-63a0895d960aa3d3653ef0ecad5bd8579388f14b.tar.xz | |
compiler: Remove uninitialized_var() macro
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.
As recommended[2] by[3] Linus[4], remove the macro. With the recent
change to disable -Wmaybe-uninitialized in v5.7 in commit 78a5255ffb6a
("Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized"), this is likely
the best time to make this treewide change.
[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/
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Bart van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/include/linux/compiler.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/include/linux/compiler.h b/tools/include/linux/compiler.h index 9f9002734e19..2f2f4082225e 100644 --- a/tools/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/tools/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -111,8 +111,6 @@ # define noinline #endif -#define uninitialized_var(x) x = *(&(x)) - #include <linux/types.h> /* |