99ca38c2aa
The uninitialized_var() macro was removed recently via commit 63a0895d960a
("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.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/afc2cffdd315d3e4394af149278df9e8af7f49f4.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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