On Sat, 2020-08-01 at 19:46 +0100, Jules Irenge wrote:
 Checkpatch tool reports an error at variable audit_sig_sid
declaration 
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 diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c 
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 @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ static u32	audit_backlog_wait_time =
AUDIT_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME;
  /* The identity of the user shutting down the audit system. */
  kuid_t		audit_sig_uid = INVALID_UID;
  pid_t		audit_sig_pid = -1;
 -u32		audit_sig_sid = 0;
 +u32		audit_sig_sid; 
All of these are unused outside of audit.c and might as
well be static and removed from the .h file.