[PATCH 00/11] Drop unnecessary static

These patches fix cases where there is a static on a local variable, but
the variable is initialized before any possible use.  Thus, the static has
no benefit.

---

 drivers/ata/sata_gemini.c                     |    2 +-
 drivers/clk/clk-moxart.c                      |    4 ++--
 drivers/clk/mmp/clk.c                         |    2 +-
 drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c |    2 +-
 drivers/irqchip/irq-digicolor.c               |    2 +-
 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-realview.c            |    2 +-
 drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-cpu.c                |    2 +-
 drivers/mfd/max8925-i2c.c                     |    2 +-
 drivers/mfd/twl4030-irq.c                     |    2 +-
 drivers/mtd/maps/physmap_of_versatile.c       |    2 +-
 drivers/video/fbdev/da8xx-fb.c                |    2 +-
 11 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Drop static on a local variable, when the variable is initialized before
any possible use.  Thus, the static has no benefit.

The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@bad exists@
position p;
identifier x;
type T;
@@
static T x@p;
...
x = <+...x...+>

@@
identifier x;
expression e;
type T;
position p != bad.p;
@@
-static
 T x@p;
 ... when != x
     when strict
?x = e;
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <redacted>

---
These patches are all independent of each other.

 drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c b/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c

--- a/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c

@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static int dev_rot_parse_report(struct p
 static int hid_dev_rot_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	int ret;
-	static char *name;
+	char *name;
 	struct iio_dev *indio_dev;
 	struct dev_rot_state *rot_state;
 	struct hid_sensor_hub_device *hsdev = pdev->dev.platform_data;

On Sat, 2017-07-15 at 22:07 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:

These patches fix cases where there is a static on a local variable, but
the variable is initialized before any possible use.  Thus, the static has
no benefit.

Nice one.

On Sat, 15 Jul 2017, Joe Perches wrote:

On Sat, 2017-07-15 at 22:07 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:

quoted

These patches fix cases where there is a static on a local variable, but
the variable is initialized before any possible use.  Thus, the static has
no benefit.

Nice one.

Thanks.  It was suggested by Kees Cook a while ago.  There seem to be many
opportunities.

julia

On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:07:44 +0200
Julia Lawall [off-list ref] wrote:

Drop static on a local variable, when the variable is initialized before
any possible use.  Thus, the static has no benefit.

The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@bad exists@
position p;
identifier x;
type T;
@@
static T x@p;
...
x = <+...x...+>

@@
identifier x;
expression e;
type T;
position p != bad.p;
@@
-static
 T x@p;
 ... when != x
     when strict
?x = e;
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <redacted>

Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out
as testing for the autobuilders to play with it.

Thanks,

Jonathan