Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Fix use of uninitialized value

[Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@gmail.com>]

How about initializing them explicitly as follows?
($realfile ne '') prevents the case realfile eq '' && acpi_testexpted eq ''.
Anyway your patch also should fix it. So
Reviewed-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>


diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 8f7053ec9b..2eb894a628 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1325,8 +1325,8 @@ sub process {
 	my %suppress_whiletrailers;
 	my %suppress_export;
 
-        my $acpi_testexpected;
-        my $acpi_nontestexpected;
+        my $acpi_testexpected = '';
+        my $acpi_nontestexpected = '';
 
 	# Pre-scan the patch sanitizing the lines.
 

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 08:51:19AM +0200,
Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> wrote:

> checkfilename() doesn't always set $acpi_testexpected. Fix the following
> warning:
> 
> Use of uninitialized value $acpi_testexpected in string eq at
>  ./scripts/checkpatch.pl line 1529.
> 
> Fixes: d2f1af0e4120 ("checkpatch: don't emit warning on newly created acpi data files")
> Cc: isaku.yamahata@intel.com
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 8f7053ec9b26..3d185cceac94 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1532,6 +1532,7 @@ sub process {
>  		     ($line =~ /\{\s*([\w\/\.\-]*)\s*\=\>\s*([\w\/\.\-]*)\s*\}/ &&
>  		      (defined($1) || defined($2)))) &&
>                        !(($realfile ne '') &&
> +                        defined($acpi_testexpected) &&
>                          ($realfile eq $acpi_testexpected))) {
>  			$reported_maintainer_file = 1;
>  			WARN("added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating?\n" . $herecurr);
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@gmail.com>