Checkpatch tool reports "ERROR: do not initialise globals/statics to 0"
To fix this, audit_sig_sid is uninitialized As this is stored in the .bss section, the compiler can initialize the variable automatically. Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.oct...@gmail.com> --- kernel/audit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index afd7827cf6e8..1c74d1d788b6 100644 --- 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. */ static kuid_t audit_sig_uid = INVALID_UID; static pid_t audit_sig_pid = -1; -static u32 audit_sig_sid = 0; +static u32 audit_sig_sid; /* Records can be lost in several ways: 0) [suppressed in audit_alloc] -- 2.26.2