syscalls: incompatible types and aliases on i386

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sun Jun 24 2018 - 19:52:13 EST


Hi,

I'm seeing lots of this type of warning in 4.18-rc2 (maybe even before,
but this is on x86_32/i386, so maybe people aren't checking it so much?):

In file included from ../arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c:40:
../include/linux/syscalls.h:234:18: warning: 'sys_arch_prctl' alias between functions of incompatible types 'long int(int, long unsigned int)' and 'long int(long int, long int)' [-Wattribute-alias]
asmlinkage long sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__)) \
^~~
../include/linux/syscalls.h:223:2: note: in expansion of macro '__SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
__SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, sname, __VA_ARGS__)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../include/linux/syscalls.h:213:36: note: in expansion of macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
#define SYSCALL_DEFINE2(name, ...) SYSCALL_DEFINEx(2, _##name, __VA_ARGS__)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c:310:1: note: in expansion of macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINE2'
SYSCALL_DEFINE2(arch_prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../include/linux/syscalls.h:239:18: note: aliased declaration here
asmlinkage long __se_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__)) \
^~~~~~~~
../include/linux/syscalls.h:223:2: note: in expansion of macro '__SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
__SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, sname, __VA_ARGS__)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../include/linux/syscalls.h:213:36: note: in expansion of macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
#define SYSCALL_DEFINE2(name, ...) SYSCALL_DEFINEx(2, _##name, __VA_ARGS__)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c:310:1: note: in expansion of macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINE2'
SYSCALL_DEFINE2(arch_prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



I see around 300 of these.
Using: gcc (SUSE Linux) 8.1.1 20180523 [gcc-8-branch revision 260570]

Is there a patch for this?

thanks,
--
~Randy