Re: [linux-stable-rc:linux-4.14.y 9981/9999] arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:659:22: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixing declarations and code

[Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 08:41:25PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 06:55:15AM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
> > CC: kbuild-all@01.org
> > TO: Dianzhang Chen <dianzhangchen0@gmail.com>
> > CC: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > 
> > tree:   https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.14.y
> > head:   728f3eef5bdde0f9516277b4c4519fa5436e7e5d
> > commit: 55ac552ebd34f9687cc1bdcb07006bf7f104dc99 [9981/9999] x86/ptrace: Fix possible spectre-v1 in ptrace_get_debugreg()
> > config: x86_64-rhel-7.2 (attached as .config)
> > compiler: clang version 9.0.0 (git://gitmirror/llvm_project 87856e739c8e55f3b4e0f37baaf93308ec2dbd47)
> > reproduce:
> >         git checkout 55ac552ebd34f9687cc1bdcb07006bf7f104dc99
> >         # save the attached .config to linux build tree
> >         make ARCH=x86_64 
> > 
> > If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag
> > Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> > 
> > All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
> > 
> > >> arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:659:22: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixing declarations and code [-Wdeclaration-after-statement]
> >                    struct perf_event *bp = thread->ptrace_bps[index];
> >                                       ^
> >    1 warning generated.
> > 
> > vim +659 arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
> > 
> > ---
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> 
> Hi Greg and Sasha,
> 
> I was going to reply to this on the GCC version of the thread but I
> don't really see a way to get the original message or the message ID
> from the web archive since I'm not subscribed to that list :(
> 
> https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all/2019-July/062379.html
> 
> This is not an issue in Linus' tree because he fixed it manually during
> the merge:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whhq5RQYNKzHOLqC+gzSjmcEGNJjbC=Psc_vQaCx4TCKg@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> I would say that it isn't unreasonable to fold that fixup into the
> original patch, with a note that it came from Linus' merge upstream:
> 
> 223cea6a4f05 ("Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip").
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan

Re-adding our list, which I messed up when adding stable. Sorry for the
noise :(