From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:19:36 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Matthias Kaehlcke Cc: Manoj Gupta , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Josh Poimboeuf Subject: Re: [PATCH] debugfs: Check return value of debugfs_real_fops() for NULL Message-ID: <20180328181936.GA3522@kroah.com> References: <20180327235553.210165-1-mka@chromium.org> <20180328061616.GA8212@kroah.com> <20180328180556.GB32098@kroah.com> <20180328181456.GA87376@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180328181456.GA87376@google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:14:56AM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: > El Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 08:05:56PM +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman ha dit: > > > > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > > A: Top-posting. > > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > > > A: No. > > Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? > > > > http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top > > > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 07:47:53AM -0700, Manoj Gupta wrote: > > > Please note that there is nothing wrong in the generated code, just > > > that it confuses objtool. > > > > Then fix the tool, the C code is correct :) > > > > > Clang has simply omitted the statement where NULL is returned since > > > the pointer was always dereferenced post inlining. > > > > Then tell clang not to do that, like we tell gcc not to do that as that > > is a foolish thing for a compiler to do when building the kernel. > > Thanks all for your input, we'll try to get > -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks or a similar flag to be added to > clang. Wait, clang does not have that? That's crazy, how has this not been hit yet when building the kernel? confused, greg k-h