linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/resctrl: fix the uninitialized variable warning

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Message-ID: <20181128202952.GA29570@zn.tnic>
Date:   Wed, 28 Nov 2018 21:29:52 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "Moger, Babu" <Babu.Moger@....com>
Cc:     "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>, "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "fenghua.yu@...el.com" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        "reinette.chatre@...el.com" <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
        "dan.carpenter@...cle.com" <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/resctrl: fix the uninitialized variable warning

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 08:15:02PM +0000, Moger, Babu wrote:
> Fix the compiler warning caused by a recent change.

Now take your time machine, send yourself 6 months into the future, look
at that commit message and try to remember what it was fixing. Can you?

I can't.

IOW, please summarize what smatch - the static checker not the compiler
- was complaining about and why this is a good fix.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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