[PATCH] memregion: fix cache invalidation warning message
From: Karl Mehltretter
Date: Sat Aug 08 2026 - 08:21:11 EST
WARN_ON_ONCE() takes a condition, not a message. The string literal is
always true, so the warning still triggers but the message is never
printed.
Use WARN_ONCE(1, ...) instead to print the message and keep the
once-only behavior.
Found with a Coccinelle script. Clang's -Wstring-conversion also flags
such calls but is not enabled in kernel builds.
Fixes: 1156b4418db0 ("memregion: Add cpu_cache_invalidate_memregion() interface")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 coccinelle
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/memregion.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/memregion.h b/include/linux/memregion.h
index a55f62cc5266..50a6d2ed432e 100644
--- a/include/linux/memregion.h
+++ b/include/linux/memregion.h
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static inline bool cpu_cache_has_invalidate_memregion(void)
static inline int cpu_cache_invalidate_memregion(phys_addr_t start, size_t len)
{
- WARN_ON_ONCE("CPU cache invalidation required");
+ WARN_ONCE(1, "CPU cache invalidation required");
return -ENXIO;
}
#endif
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2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)