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tracing: Use address-of operator on section symbols
authorNathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Thu, 20 Feb 2020 05:10:12 +0000 (22:10 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 1 Oct 2020 11:14:38 +0000 (13:14 +0200)
[ Upstream commit bf2cbe044da275021b2de5917240411a19e5c50d ]

Clang warns:

../kernel/trace/trace.c:9335:33: warning: array comparison always
evaluates to true [-Wtautological-compare]
        if (__stop___trace_bprintk_fmt != __start___trace_bprintk_fmt)
                                       ^
1 warning generated.

These are not true arrays, they are linker defined symbols, which are
just addresses. Using the address of operator silences the warning and
does not change the runtime result of the check (tested with some print
statements compiled in with clang + ld.lld and gcc + ld.bfd in QEMU).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220051011.26113-1-natechancellor@gmail.com
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/893
Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/trace/trace.c

index 17505a22d800bf10f274db48c55dba31365b444e..6bf617ff03694d8801187bb3a082bb4c42a95150 100644 (file)
@@ -8529,7 +8529,7 @@ __init static int tracer_alloc_buffers(void)
                goto out_free_buffer_mask;
 
        /* Only allocate trace_printk buffers if a trace_printk exists */
-       if (__stop___trace_bprintk_fmt != __start___trace_bprintk_fmt)
+       if (&__stop___trace_bprintk_fmt != &__start___trace_bprintk_fmt)
                /* Must be called before global_trace.buffer is allocated */
                trace_printk_init_buffers();