linux-kernel - [PATCH] kconfig: do not use OR-assignment for zero-cleared structure

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Message-Id: <20200413153320.93316-1-masahiroy@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:33:20 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kconfig: do not use OR-assignment for zero-cleared structure

The simple assignment is enough because memset() three lines above
has zero-cleared the structure.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
---

 scripts/kconfig/symbol.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c b/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
index 3dc81397d003..9363e37b8870 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ struct symbol *sym_lookup(const char *name, int flags)
 	memset(symbol, 0, sizeof(*symbol));
 	symbol->name = new_name;
 	symbol->type = S_UNKNOWN;
-	symbol->flags |= flags;
+	symbol->flags = flags;
 
 	symbol->next = symbol_hash[hash];
 	symbol_hash[hash] = symbol;
-- 
2.25.1