Re: [PATCH] kernel/module: silence a gcc warning

[Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>]

Hi Jessica,

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> wrote:
> +++ Mathieu Malaterre [11/04/18 21:05 +0200]:
>>
>> In commit 8c8ef42aee8f ("module: include other structures in module
>> version
>> check"), the function `struct_module` was renamed to `module_layout` but
>> no
>> prototype was added to `include/linux/module.h`. Remove warning triggered
>> at W=1:
>>
>>  kernel/module.c:4378:6: warning: no previous prototype for
>> ‘module_layout’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
>> ---
>> include/linux/module.h | 8 ++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
>> index d44df9b2c131..28046e8b7e9d 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/module.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/module.h
>> @@ -786,6 +786,14 @@ extern int module_sysfs_initialized;
>>
>> #define symbol_request(x) try_then_request_module(symbol_get(x), "symbol:"
>> #x)
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
>> +void module_layout(struct module *mod,
>> +                  struct modversion_info *ver,
>> +                  struct kernel_param *kp,
>> +                  struct kernel_symbol *ks,
>> +                  struct tracepoint * const *tp);
>> +#endif /* CONFIG_MODVERSIONS */
>> +
>
>
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> We're going to need a forward declaration in module.h for struct tracepoint
> to address the kbuild warnings.

Well that what I also thought at first. But since line 433 already does:

struct tracepoint * const *tracepoints_ptrs;

I suspect I should instead add sentinels: #ifdef CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS/#endif

Will try out shortly.

> Thanks,
>
> Jessica
>
>
>> /* BELOW HERE ALL THESE ARE OBSOLETE AND WILL VANISH */
>>
>> #define __MODULE_STRING(x) __stringify(x)
>> --
>> 2.11.0
>>
>