[PATCH v3] sparc64: Define p4d_page() instead of stubbing it to NULL
From: Rosen Penev
Date: Fri Oct 09 2026 - 17:33:01 EST
A sparc64 allmodconfig build with LLVM fails in vmalloc_to_page():
mm/vmalloc.c: error: performing pointer arithmetic on a null pointer
has undefined behavior [-Werror,-Wnull-pointer-arithmetic]
sparc64 defines p4d_page() as NULL, on the assumption that it is only
used by stubbed out hugetlb gup code. Generic code now uses it in
vmalloc_to_page(), ptdump and KASAN. In vmalloc_to_page() the NULL is
used in pointer arithmetic, which clang diagnoses even though the
branch is unreachable on sparc64.
Define p4d_page() as a NULL function to silence clang's warning on an
unreachable branch. sparc64 has no p4d leaf mappings, so there is no
functional change.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v3: do it properly.
v2: use a NULL function instead.
arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
index 35a217bf6e5c..bd4fc65e4bfe 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
@@ -851,7 +851,11 @@ static inline pmd_t *pud_pgtable(pud_t pud)
#define p4d_clear(p4dp) (p4d_val(*(p4dp)) = 0UL)
/* only used by the stubbed out hugetlb gup code, should never be called */
-#define p4d_page(p4d) NULL
+#define p4d_page p4d_page
+static inline struct page *p4d_page(p4d_t p4d)
+{
+ return NULL;
+}
#define pud_leaf pud_leaf
static inline bool pud_leaf(pud_t pud)
--
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