Re: [PATCH] audit: remove redundant initialization of static variables to 0

[Ricardo Robaina]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 6:40 PM Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Feb 26, 2026 Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Static variables are automatically initialized to 0 by the compiler.
> > Remove the redundant explicit assignments in kernel/audit.c to clean
> > up the code, align with standard kernel coding style, and fix the
> > following checkpatch.pl errors:
> >
> >  ./scripts/checkpatch.pl kernel/audit.c | grep -A2 ERROR:
> >  ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0
> >  +    static unsigned long    last_check = 0;
> >  --
> >  ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0
> >  +    static int              messages   = 0;
> >  --
> >  ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0
> >  +    static unsigned long    last_msg = 0;
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  kernel/audit.c | 6 +++---
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Merged into audit/dev, thanks.
>
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>

Thanks, Paul!