@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
/* Compiler specific definitions for Clang compiler */
-#define uninitialized_var(x) x = *(&(x))
-
/* same as gcc, this was present in clang-2.6 so we can assume it works
* with any version that can compile the kernel
*/
@@ -59,12 +59,6 @@
(typeof(ptr)) (__ptr + (off)); \
})
-/*
- * A trick to suppress uninitialized variable warning without generating any
- * code
- */
-#define uninitialized_var(x) x = x
-
#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
#define __noretpoline __attribute__((__indirect_branch__("keep")))
#endif
@@ -111,8 +111,6 @@
# define noinline
#endif
-#define uninitialized_var(x) x = *(&(x))
-
#include <linux/types.h>
/*
@@ -109,8 +109,6 @@ static inline void free_page(unsigned long addr)
const typeof( ((type *)0)->member ) *__mptr = (ptr); \
(type *)( (char *)__mptr - offsetof(type,member) );})
-#define uninitialized_var(x) x = x
-
# ifndef likely
# define likely(x) (__builtin_expect(!!(x), 1))
# endif
Using uninitialized_var() is dangerous as it papers over real bugs[1] (or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings (e.g. "unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized, either simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes. As recommended[2] by[3] Linus[4], remove the macro. With the recent change to disable -Wmaybe-uninitialized in v5.7 in commit 78a5255ffb6a ("Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized"), this is likely the best time to make this treewide change. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@google.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@mail.gmail.com/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/ Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Bart van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> --- include/linux/compiler-clang.h | 2 -- include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 6 ------ tools/include/linux/compiler.h | 2 -- tools/virtio/linux/kernel.h | 2 -- 4 files changed, 12 deletions(-)