On Sat, 2020-08-01 at 19:46 +0100, Jules Irenge wrote: > Checkpatch tool reports an error at variable audit_sig_sid declaration [] > diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c [] > @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ static u32 audit_backlog_wait_time = > AUDIT_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME; > /* The identity of the user shutting down the audit system. */ > kuid_t audit_sig_uid = INVALID_UID; > pid_t audit_sig_pid = -1; > -u32 audit_sig_sid = 0; > +u32 audit_sig_sid;
All of these are unused outside of audit.c and might as well be static and removed from the .h file.
