From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-doc <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecated.rst: Remove now removed uninitialized_var
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 08:56:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8409fc18e39aeee3486c334d903b8a3e6ccaafa.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202008270755.5B91A3D@keescook>
On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 07:58 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 08:12:01PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > It's now gone from the kernel so remove it from the deprecated API text.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
>
> Oh! Right, thank you. I forgot to rewrite this. I'd like to keep the
> details about why "tricking the compiler to be quiet" should not be
> done.
Probably better in coding style.
> One of my fears about removing uninitialized_var() is that folks
> may start adding open-coded versions to silence warnings. I'd like to
> keep a section in deprecated.rst that describes the problem and why
> those kinds of work-arounds should not be used.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-27 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-27 3:12 [PATCH] deprecated.rst: Remove now removed uninitialized_var Joe Perches
2020-08-27 3:27 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-27 14:58 ` Kees Cook
2020-08-27 15:56 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-08-31 22:31 ` Jonathan Corbet
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