Re: [PATCH] x86/boot/KASLR: Fix unused variable warning

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 09:04:17PM +0800, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
> This patch fixes below warning by moving variable 'i':

Avoid having "This patch" or "This commit" in the commit message. It is
tautologically useless.

Also, do

$ git grep 'This patch' Documentation/process

for more details.

> arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c:698:6: warning: unused variable âiâ
> [-Wunused-variable]

You could explain here why the warning fires...

> Also use true/false instead of 1/0 for boolean return.
> 
> Fixes: 690eaa532057 ("x86/boot/KASLR: Limit KASLR to extract the
> kernel in immovable memory only")
> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


WARNING: please, no spaces at the start of a line
#45: FILE: arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c:707:
+ return true;$

WARNING: please, no spaces at the start of a line
#48: FILE: arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c:709:
+ return false;$

WARNING: please, no spaces at the start of a line
#52: FILE: arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c:713:
+ int i;$

ERROR: patch seems to be corrupt (line wrapped?)
#60: FILE: arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c:736:
regions(slot_areas full)!\n");

WARNING: please, no spaces at the start of a line
#62: FILE: arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c:737:
+ return true;$

WARNING: please, no spaces at the start of a line
#67: FILE: arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c:741:
+ return false;$


$ test-apply.sh /tmp/zhenzhong.duan.01 
checking file arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
patch: **** malformed patch at line 60: regions(slot_areas full)!\n");

I'd be very interested to know how you even managed to create such a
well, hm, "patch"?!

For the future, before you send a patch:

- use checkpatch on it
- send it to yourself and try applying it first

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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