Re: [PATCH v3 13/23] mm/mmap: Make vm_special_mapping::mremap return void

[Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>]

Le 11/06/2021 à 20:02, Dmitry Safonov a écrit :
> Previously .mremap() callback had to return (int) to provide
> a way to restrict resizing of a special mapping. Now it's
> restricted by providing .may_split = special_mapping_split.
> 
> Removing (int) return simplifies further changes to
> special_mapping_mremap() as it won't need save ret code from the
> callback. Also, it removes needless `return 0` from callbacks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 3 +--
>   arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c  | 4 +---
>   arch/mips/vdso/genvdso.c  | 3 +--
>   arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c | 4 +---
>   include/linux/mm_types.h  | 4 ++--
>   mm/mmap.c                 | 2 +-
>   6 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 

Build failure:

   CC      arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.o
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c:93:19: error: initialization of 'void (*)(const struct vm_special_mapping 
*, struct vm_area_struct *)' from incompatible pointer type 'int (*)(const struct vm_special_mapping 
*, struct vm_area_struct *)' [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
    93 |         .mremap = vdso32_mremap,
       |                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c:93:19: note: (near initialization for 'vdso32_spec.mremap')
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c:98:19: error: initialization of 'void (*)(const struct vm_special_mapping 
*, struct vm_area_struct *)' from incompatible pointer type 'int (*)(const struct vm_special_mapping 
*, struct vm_area_struct *)' [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
    98 |         .mremap = vdso64_mremap,
       |                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c:98:19: note: (near initialization for 'vdso64_spec.mremap')
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[3]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel] Error 2
make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc] Error 2
make: *** [__sub-make] Error 2