linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] percpu: initialize best

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Date:   Mon, 17 May 2021 20:06:56 +0900
From:   Wonhyuk Yang <vvghjk1234@...il.com>
To:     Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>
Cc:     trix@...hat.com, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu: initialize best_upa variable

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:05 AM Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Can you also tell me what static analysis tool produced this? I'm just a
> little curious because this code hasn't changed in several years so I'd
> have expected some static analyzer to have caught this by now.
>

It's because uninitialize_var() was gone. It was introduced commit :
3f649ab728cda8("treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage")