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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>, Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>,
	Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	llvm@lists.linux.dev, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.1.y] KVM: arm64: silence -Wuninitialized-const-pointer warning
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:58:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025072553-chevy-starter-565e@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250724-b4-clidr-unint-const-ptr-v1-1-67c4d620b6b6@google.com>

On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 06:15:28PM -0700, Justin Stitt wrote:
> A new warning in Clang 22 [1] complains that @clidr passed to
> get_clidr_el1() is an uninitialized const pointer. get_clidr_el1()
> doesn't really care since it casts away the const-ness anyways.

Is clang-22 somehow now a supported kernel for the 6.1.y tree?  Last I
looked, Linus's tree doesn't even build properly for it, so why worry
about this one just yet?

> Silence the warning by initializing the struct.

Why not fix the compiler not to do this instead?  We hate doing foolish
work-arounds for broken compilers.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-07-25  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-25  1:15 [PATCH 6.1.y] KVM: arm64: silence -Wuninitialized-const-pointer warning Justin Stitt
2025-07-25  1:19 ` Justin Stitt
2025-07-25  7:30 ` Marc Zyngier
2025-07-25 16:26   ` Nathan Chancellor
2025-07-25 16:53     ` Marc Zyngier
2025-07-25  8:58 ` Greg KH [this message]
2025-07-25 16:38   ` Nathan Chancellor
2025-07-25 17:08     ` Greg KH
2025-07-26  1:01 ` Sasha Levin

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