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@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ uninitialized in the local variable, as well as the stack where the value was
copied to another memory location before use.
A use of uninitialized value ``v`` is reported by KMSAN in the following cases:
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- in a condition, e.g. ``if (v) { ... }``;
- in an indexing or pointer dereferencing, e.g. ``array[v]`` or ``*v``;
- when it is copied to userspace or hardware, e.g. ``copy_to_user(..., &v, ...)``;