The uninitialized_var() macro was removed recently via commit 63a0895d96
("compiler: Remove uninitialized_var() macro") as it's not a particularly
useful warning and its use can "paper over real bugs".
Add a checkpatch test to warn on self-assignments as a means to avoid
compiler warnings and as a back-door mechanism to reproduce the old
uninitialized_var macro behavior.
[[email protected]: coding style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
Cc: Denis Efremov <[email protected]>
Cc: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Joe Perches
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