[PATCH 01/16] ARM: warnings in arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h

[gerg@snapgear.com (Greg Ungerer)]

On 06/10/12 00:55, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On NOMMU ARM, the __addr_ok() and __range_ok() macros do not evaluate
> their arguments, which may lead to harmless build warnings in some
> code where the variables are not used otherwise. Adding a cast to void
> gets rid of the warning and does not make any semantic changes.
>
> Without this patch, building at91x40_defconfig results in:
>
> fs/read_write.c: In function 'rw_copy_check_uvector':
> fs/read_write.c:684:9: warning: unused variable 'buf' [-Wunused-variable]
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>

I can pick it up and push to the arm-soc tree.

Regards
Greg


> ---
>   arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h |    4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
> index 77bd79f..7e1f760 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
> @@ -200,8 +200,8 @@ extern int __put_user_8(void *, unsigned long long);
>   #define USER_DS			KERNEL_DS
>
>   #define segment_eq(a,b)		(1)
> -#define __addr_ok(addr)		(1)
> -#define __range_ok(addr,size)	(0)
> +#define __addr_ok(addr)		((void)(addr),1)
> +#define __range_ok(addr,size)	((void)(addr),0)
>   #define get_fs()		(KERNEL_DS)
>
>   static inline void set_fs(mm_segment_t fs)
>


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