Thread (35 messages) 35 messages, 7 authors, 2020-07-15

Re: [PATCH v2 00/16] Remove uninitialized_var() macro

From: Sedat Dilek <hidden>
Date: 2020-06-20 07:03:49
Also in: linux-block, linux-clk, linux-doc, linux-ide, linux-mm, linux-spi, linux-wireless, lkml

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:30 AM Kees Cook [off-list ref] wrote:
v2:
- more special-cased fixes
- add reviews
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603233203.1695403-1-keescook@chromium.org (local)

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.

Most of the 300 uses don't cause any warnings on gcc 9.3.0, so they're in
a single treewide commit in this series. A few others needed to actually
get cleaned up, and I broke those out into individual patches.

The tree is:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=kspp/uninit/macro

-Kees
Hi Kees,

thanks for doing a v2 of your patchset.

As I saw Jason Yan providing some "uninitialized_var() macro" patches
to the MLs I pointen him to your tree "v1".

BTW, I have tested your "v1" against Linux v5.7 (see [1]) - just
yesterday with Linux v5.7.5-rc1.

Is it possible to have a v2 of this patchset on top od Linux v5.7 - if
you do not mind.

Thanks.

Best regards,
- Sedat -

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=kspp/uninit/v5.7/macro
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@google.com/ (local)
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com/ (local)
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@mail.gmail.com/ (local)
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/ (local)

Jason Yan (1):
  f2fs: Eliminate usage of uninitialized_var() macro

Kees Cook (15):
  docs: deprecated.rst: Add uninitialized_var()
  x86/mm/numa: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  drbd: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  b43: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  ide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  clk: st: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  spi: davinci: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  clk: spear: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  media: sur40: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  checkpatch: Remove awareness of uninitialized_var() macro
  treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  compiler: Remove uninitialized_var() macro
  mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Remove uninitialized_var() usage

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 sound/core/control_compat.c                    |  2 +-
 sound/isa/sb/sb16_csp.c                        |  2 +-
 sound/usb/endpoint.c                           |  2 +-
 tools/include/linux/compiler.h                 |  2 --
 tools/virtio/linux/kernel.h                    |  2 --
 196 files changed, 321 insertions(+), 330 deletions(-)

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