This is an effort to eliminate the uninitialized_var() macro[1]. The use of this macro is the wrong solution because it forces off ANY analysis by the compiler for a given variable. It even masks "unused variable" warnings.
Quoted from Linus[2]: "It's a horrible thing to use, in that it adds extra cruft to the source code, and then shuts up a compiler warning (even the _reliable_ warnings from gcc)." The gcc option "-Wmaybe-uninitialized" has been disabled and this change will not produce any warnnings even with "make W=1". [1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/81 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yvju65tplgn_ybynv0ve...@mail.gmail.com/ Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanai...@huawei.com> --- drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c index 435781a16875..fcb00f2825fe 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static ssize_t ata_scsi_park_show(struct device *device, struct ata_link *link; struct ata_device *dev; unsigned long now; - unsigned int uninitialized_var(msecs); + unsigned int msecs; int rc = 0; ap = ata_shost_to_port(sdev->host); -- 2.25.4
