linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] coccinelle: misc: add uninitialized

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Date:   Sat, 29 Aug 2020 12:38:13 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>,
        Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
Cc:     cocci@...teme.lip6.fr, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "Gustavo A . R . Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] coccinelle: misc: add uninitialized_var.cocci script

On Sat, 2020-08-29 at 21:36 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2020, Denis Efremov wrote:
> 
> > Commit 63a0895d960a ("compiler: Remove uninitialized_var() macro") and
> > commit 4b19bec97c88 ("docs: deprecated.rst: Add uninitialized_var()")
> > removed uninitialized_var() and deprecated it.
> > 
> > The purpose of this script is to prevent new occurrences of open-coded
> > variants of uninitialized_var().

> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> > Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
> 
> Applied, without the commented out part.
> 
> I only got three warnings, though.  Perhaps the others have been fixed?

uninitialized_var does not exist in -next