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

From: Paul Moore

Date: Mon Mar 02 2026 - 17:50:27 EST


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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