Re: [PATCH v5 15/15] Compiler Attributes: ext4: remove local __nonstring definition

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Thu Sep 20 2018 - 14:14:03 EST


On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 10:23 AM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Commit 072ebb3bffe6 ("ext4: add nonstring annotations to ext4.h")
> introduced a local definition of __nonstring to suppress some false
> positives in gcc 8's -Wstringop-truncation.
>
> Since now we support __nonstring for everyone, remove it.

... from a patch in the current series (Note to other reviewers).

>
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ext4/ext4.h | 9 ---------
> 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> index caff935fbeb8..2acdfdad3d3f 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> @@ -45,15 +45,6 @@
>
> #include <linux/compiler.h>
>
> -/* Until this gets included into linux/compiler-gcc.h */
> -#ifndef __nonstring
> -#if defined(GCC_VERSION) && (GCC_VERSION >= 80000)
> -#define __nonstring __attribute__((nonstring))
> -#else
> -#define __nonstring
> -#endif
> -#endif
> -
> /*
> * The fourth extended filesystem constants/structures
> */
> --
> 2.17.1
>

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers