[patch 126/166] lib/dynamic_debug.c: use address-of operator on section symbols

Andrew Morton
2020-04-07T03:10:48Z

From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Subject: lib/dynamic_debug.c: use address-of operator on section symbols

Clang warns:

../lib/dynamic_debug.c:1034:24: warning: array comparison always
evaluates to false [-Wtautological-compare]
if (__start___verbose == __stop___verbose) {
^
1 warning generated.

These are not true arrays, they are linker defined symbols, which are just
addresses. Using the address of operator silences the warning and does
not change the resulting assembly with either clang/ld.lld or gcc/ld
(tested with diff + objdump -Dr).

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/894
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220051320.10739-1-natechancellor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

lib/dynamic_debug.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c~dynamic_debug-use-address-of-operator-on-section-symbols
+++ a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -1031,7 +1031,7 @@ static int __init dynamic_debug_init(voi
int n = 0, entries = 0, modct = 0;
int verbose_bytes = 0;

- if (__start___verbose == __stop___verbose) {
+ if (&__start___verbose == &__stop___verbose) {
pr_warn("_ddebug table is empty in a CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG build\n");
return 1;
}
_