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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rickard Faith <faith@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix warning: no return statement in function returning non-void in kernel/audit.c
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:03:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060911160328.GJ4743@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609111715.17080.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 05:15:16PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
 > 
 > kauditd_thread() is being used in a call to kthread_run(). kthread_run() expects
 > a function returning 'int' which is also how kauditd_thread() is declared. Unfortunately
 > kauditd_thread() neglects to return a value which results in this complaint from gcc :
 > 
 >   kernel/audit.c:372: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void
 > 
 > Easily fixed by just adding a 'return 0;' to kauditd_thread().

Which will never be reached.  Does marking the function NORET_TYPE
also silence the warning?

	Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-11 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-11 15:15 [PATCH] fix warning: no return statement in function returning non-void in kernel/audit.c Jesper Juhl
2006-09-11 16:03 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-09-11 19:22   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-09-11 20:23     ` Dave Jones
2006-09-11 22:56 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-09-12  8:59   ` Jesper Juhl

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