Thread (40 messages) 40 messages, 13 authors, 2012-10-31

[PATCH 01/16] ARM: warnings in arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h

From: Greg Ungerer <hidden>
Date: 2012-10-08 05:44:12
Also in: lkml

On 06/10/12 00:55, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On NOMMU ARM, the __addr_ok() and __range_ok() macros do not evaluate
their arguments, which may lead to harmless build warnings in some
code where the variables are not used otherwise. Adding a cast to void
gets rid of the warning and does not make any semantic changes.

Without this patch, building at91x40_defconfig results in:

fs/read_write.c: In function 'rw_copy_check_uvector':
fs/read_write.c:684:9: warning: unused variable 'buf' [-Wunused-variable]

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <redacted>
Cc: Russell King <redacted>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <redacted>

I can pick it up and push to the arm-soc tree.

Regards
Greg

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
  arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h |    4 ++--
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 77bd79f..7e1f760 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -200,8 +200,8 @@ extern int __put_user_8(void *, unsigned long long);
  #define USER_DS			KERNEL_DS

  #define segment_eq(a,b)		(1)
-#define __addr_ok(addr)		(1)
-#define __range_ok(addr,size)	(0)
+#define __addr_ok(addr)		((void)(addr),1)
+#define __range_ok(addr,size)	((void)(addr),0)
  #define get_fs()		(KERNEL_DS)

  static inline void set_fs(mm_segment_t fs)

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