linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 06/12] powerpc: Drop unnecessary initializations in __copy_inst_from_kernel

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Message-Id: <20250821-bump-min-llvm-ver-15-v2-6-635f3294e5f0@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:15:43 -0700
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>, 
 Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@...il.com>, 
 Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>, Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>, 
 llvm@...ts.linux.dev, patches@...ts.linux.dev, 
 Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, 
 Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>, 
 Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>, 
 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>, 
 linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 06/12] powerpc: Drop unnecessary initializations in
 __copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault()

Now that the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel
has been bumped to 15.0.0, the zero initializations of val and suffix
added by commit 0d76914a4c99 ("powerpc/inst: Optimise
copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault()") to avoid a bogus case of
-Wuninitialized can be dropped because the preprocessor condition is
always false.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
---
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h
index 684d3f453282..ffa82167c860 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h
@@ -143,10 +143,6 @@ static inline int __copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault(ppc_inst_t *inst, u32 *src)
 {
 	unsigned int val, suffix;
 
-/* See https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1521 */
-#if defined(CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG) && CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION < 140000
-	val = suffix = 0;
-#endif
 	__get_kernel_nofault(&val, src, u32, Efault);
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC64) && get_op(val) == OP_PREFIX) {
 		__get_kernel_nofault(&suffix, src + 1, u32, Efault);

-- 
2.50.1