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From: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	"moderated list:AUDIT SUBSYSTEM" <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] audit: uninitialize global variable audit_sig_sid
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 15:32:08 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.23.451.2008021356020.85114@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <91c6c45f0d8ec0d031c216711cd8d7f6e9aad7ad.camel@perches.com>



On Sat, 1 Aug 2020, Joe Perches wrote:

> 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.
> 

Thanks for reply, I will resend a second version with the recommendation,  
namely make the above static and remove them from the .h file.

Jules

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-02 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <0/4>
2020-03-30  1:24 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Coccinelle cleanups Jules Irenge
2020-03-30  1:24   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] cpu: Remove Comparison to bool Jules Irenge
2020-03-30  1:24   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] rcu: Replace 1 by true Jules Irenge
2020-03-30 21:16     ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-03-30  1:24   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] genirq: " Jules Irenge
2020-03-30  1:24   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] locking/rtmutex: Remove Comparison to bool Jules Irenge
2020-03-30 11:21     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-03 16:17       ` Jules Irenge
2020-08-01 18:45 ` [PATCH 0/4] Checkpatch tool errors clean up Jules Irenge
2020-08-01 18:46   ` [PATCH 1/4] acct: Add required space between variable and operator Jules Irenge
2020-08-01 18:46   ` [PATCH 2/4] audit: uninitialize global variable audit_sig_sid Jules Irenge
2020-08-01 18:55     ` Joe Perches
2020-08-01 20:26       ` Paul Moore
2020-08-02 14:32       ` Jules Irenge [this message]
2020-08-01 18:46   ` [PATCH 3/4] audit: uninitialize static variables Jules Irenge
2020-08-01 20:21     ` Paul Moore
2020-08-01 18:46   ` [PATCH 4/4] context_tracking: " Jules Irenge
2020-08-03  9:37     ` peterz
2020-08-03 10:27       ` Jules Irenge
2020-08-01 19:07   ` [PATCH 0/4] Checkpatch tool errors clean up Joe Perches
2020-08-02 14:54     ` Jules Irenge

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