Re: [BUG] sparse warning EXPORT_SYMBOL()'d symbol non-static

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Sun, 2013-11-24 at 21:48 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-11-24 at 12:45 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 12:28:51PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > > Well, sparse is clearly "right", for all it cares it might very well be
> > > > static, but it seems this is necessary for something in the kernel and
> > > > we clearly can't forward-declare it in a header file. Perhaps we can add
> > > > some annotation to say
> > > > "__attribute__((yes_I_know_but_really_dont_want_this_to_be_static))" to
> > > > suppress this warning? This is getting annoying to me as well :-)
> > > 
> > > We could do something like
> > > 
> > > typeof(foo); 
> > > 
> > > in the macro. Not sure if that would make sparse happy.
> > 
> > If you're just looking to mollify sparse,
> 
> I am, pretty much, since now I get a ton of output and have to either
> grep it or dig through it... :)
> 
> > the easiest way is to
> > put a prototype of the symbol right before the symbol itself.
> 
> Oh, right, good point, thanks Josh. Andi, do you want to do that?
> Otherwise I can post a patch.

The below seems to mollify sparse, but all the attributes make my head
spin so I'm not sure it's really what we need.

--- a/include/linux/export.h
+++ b/include/linux/export.h
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ extern struct module __this_module;
 	static const char __kstrtab_##sym[]			\
 	__attribute__((section("__ksymtab_strings"), aligned(1))) \
 	= VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR(sym);				\
+	extern const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym;	\
 	__visible const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym	\
 	__used							\
 	__attribute__((section("___ksymtab" sec "+" #sym), unused))	\


johannes