Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: socket: implement SO_DESCRIPTION

From: kernel test robot
Date: Sun Aug 16 2020 - 05:01:25 EST


Hi Pascal,

Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on tip/perf/core]
[also build test WARNING on linux/master v5.8]
[cannot apply to security/next-testing linus/master next-20200814]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch]

url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Pascal-Bouchareine/proc-socket-attach-description-to-sockets/20200816-090222
base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git d903b6d029d66e6478562d75ea18d89098f7b7e8
config: x86_64-randconfig-r006-20200816 (attached as .config)
compiler: clang version 12.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project ab9fc8bae805c785066779e76e7846aabad5609e)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
# install x86_64 cross compiling tool for clang build
# apt-get install binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu
# save the attached .config to linux build tree
COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross ARCH=x86_64

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> net/core/sock.c:831:5: warning: no previous prototype for function 'sock_set_description' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
int sock_set_description(struct sock *sk, char __user *user_desc)
^
net/core/sock.c:831:1: note: declare 'static' if the function is not intended to be used outside of this translation unit
int sock_set_description(struct sock *sk, char __user *user_desc)
^
static
1 warning generated.

vim +/sock_set_description +831 net/core/sock.c

830
> 831 int sock_set_description(struct sock *sk, char __user *user_desc)
832 {
833 char *old, *desc;
834
835 desc = strndup_user(user_desc, SK_MAX_DESC_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
836 if (IS_ERR(desc))
837 return PTR_ERR(desc);
838
839 lock_sock(sk);
840 old = sk->sk_description;
841 sk->sk_description = desc;
842 release_sock(sk);
843
844 kfree(old);
845
846 return 0;
847 }
848

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