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

On Feb 26, 2026 Ricardo Robaina <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
> ---
>  kernel/audit.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Merged into audit/dev, thanks.

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