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 <[email protected]> --- kernel/audit.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 5a0216056524..08793e71b975 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -355,8 +355,8 @@ void audit_panic(const char *message) static inline int audit_rate_check(void) { - static unsigned long last_check = 0; - static int messages = 0; + static unsigned long last_check; + static int messages; static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock); unsigned long flags; unsigned long now; @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ static inline int audit_rate_check(void) */ void audit_log_lost(const char *message) { - static unsigned long last_msg = 0; + static unsigned long last_msg; static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock); unsigned long flags; unsigned long now; -- 2.53.0

