From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754944AbaCDXN6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2014 18:13:58 -0500 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:59639 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751288AbaCDXN4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2014 18:13:56 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.8.0 04/21/2012 with nmh-1.5+dev To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Greg KH , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The sheer number of sparse warnings in the kernel In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:31:47 -0800." <530E7963.10209@zytor.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <530E6F76.1070605@zytor.com> <20140226232859.GA9213@kroah.com> <20140226232954.GA17791@kroah.com> <530E7963.10209@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1393974804_2973P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 18:13:24 -0500 Message-ID: <17552.1393974804@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1393974804_2973P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:31:47 -0800, "H. Peter Anvin" said: > Yes... it looks like the 0.4.5-rc1 that shipped in Fedora is indeed out > of date. With 0.5.0 I "only" see 8,207 messages, which means that at > least the linux/err.h issue is gone. Unfortunately, that's not true, at least with the Fedora Rawhide version of sparse. From yesterday's build of next-20140403: [/usr/src/linux-next] sparse --version 0.5.0 [/usr/src/linux-next] grep err.h build.default | sort | uniq -c 1491 include/linux/err.h:29:23: warning: dereference of noderef expression 2 include/linux/err.h:29:23: warning: too many warnings 2493 include/linux/err.h:34:16: warning: dereference of noderef expression 59 include/linux/err.h:39:17: warning: dereference of noderef expression 59 include/linux/err.h:39:24: warning: dereference of noderef expression 124 include/linux/err.h:52:25: warning: dereference of noderef expression 18 include/linux/err.h:57:20: warning: dereference of noderef expression 18 include/linux/err.h:58:32: warning: dereference of noderef expression (Oddly enough, the tarball in the .src.rpm seems to match the one on kernel.org, and nothing fishy in the .spec file, so I'm confused now...) --==_Exmh_1393974804_2973P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iQIVAwUBUxZeFAdmEQWDXROgAQLzvRAAt3Ud81uzhsr9eD+L8Y3ULt6HBDnljFiu NzJxhVeyEZ6Ygabykz5T6CCPUg6SKmv3qUSpXnQElzx3/9nSE+lHUGJt7wyCV8Kn fDA8LirA0wvcqGXZZC6Zb9/FVP96Qe2t9IuFAeu7rpbwY9d2ndIB7P9eXaFSNcoa B5Egv+F03L6Md4BmnsLKmth2wZXpUf/KY6WcnIxUpbffPKZO344YP+e55WIo7yya BJoaVHdFCvoYhP10oPYXrCKnBIar072ukHPseua9uildu+N/t7bnIJopY9Ws9dfJ 1lBmymyUgdIA6aNen8M3Ykk7YrwXImM7r0KzhU+TlHNpusXbkwANXTIPlWgAAHp2 ZZmIO3hSfH1nTPjlTK/oDWLc2AjzlF8t4o6TETszljnNxY1Ux7C7D7+8SADrZ6Gi YwpVM91JcQmM3gf6rf8xljCVEnVY2b3jvFeJcpsvTI4aymQs9YvsFkIGqLwAFksi Wihp3Jh2bUek71hjk5O6j3IvlIO1Xee4uyECUIzetkErdu5taFhJ3CpODoUmNx4Z zyiNh/Dx19MgLCp/X+nmNlLAvlxvhEbj12JHwiwyaNJTJoHLojBplb/uQ5rmSxP/ LIi9wcQtxBS6uqiK5GPJE0d/0JHCqyS/cOcgQbUJAt/mEghruBo/Dgxp7ZUUGUYy la1YT6gdUcU= =j5oG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1393974804_2973P--