Subject: + checkpatch-fix-use-of-uninitialized-value-warnings.patch added to -mm tree To: joe@xxxxxxxxxxx,apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,gsi@xxxxxxx From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:47:38 -0800 The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: fix "Use of uninitialized value" warnings has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-fix-use-of-uninitialized-value-warnings.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-fix-use-of-uninitialized-value-warnings.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-fix-use-of-uninitialized-value-warnings.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: fix "Use of uninitialized value" warnings checkpatch is currently confused about some complex macros and references undefined variables $stat and $cond. Make sure these are defined before using them. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Gerhard Sittig <gsi@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-use-of-uninitialized-value-warnings scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-use-of-uninitialized-value-warnings +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3289,6 +3289,7 @@ sub process { } } if (!defined $suppress_whiletrailers{$linenr} && + defined($stat) && defined($cond) && $line =~ /\b(?:if|while|for)\s*\(/ && $line !~ /^.\s*#/) { my ($s, $c) = ($stat, $cond); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch checkpatch-fix-use-of-uninitialized-value-warnings.patch kernel-timerc-convert-kmalloc_nodegfp_zero-to-kzalloc_node.patch printk-cache-mark-printk_once-test-variable-__read_mostly.patch printk-cache-mark-printk_once-test-variable-__read_mostly-fix.patch get_maintainerpl-incomplete-output.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html