linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/amd: fix uninitalized structure cp

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Message-ID: <8736cickrn.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:58:20 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        x86@...nel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/amd: fix uninitalized structure cp

Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com> writes:
> On 14/01/2020 11:38, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>>
>>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
>> 
>> I already asked about those: either document what those tags mean or
>> remove them.
>> 
> I can send a V2 w/o these if it so pleases you. I've had nobody else
> complain about these and we have literally hundreds of Coverity tagged
> issues now accepted in the kernel so that we can trace how fixes are found.

Please keep them. Having a reference how stuff got "reported" _is_
useful.

Thanks,

        tglx