Re: [PATCH V3] purgatory: fix up declarations

From: Dave Young
Date: Sun Jan 08 2017 - 20:14:11 EST


On 01/07/17 at 05:22pm, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> Add the missing declarations of basic purgatory functions and variables
> to allow a clean build.
>
> Fixes: commit 8fc5b4d4121c ("purgatory: core purgatory functionality")
> Link: http://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/4/25
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> V2: after kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> reported a build failure
> removed incorrect declaration of copy_backup_region which is static
> anyway.
>
> V3: move it all into purgatory.h as fixing up the declarations in the .c
> file as suggested by Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>, fixes the sparse
> warnings but then triggers a batch of checkpatch warnings. So the only
> clear solution it seems is to move it to a dedicated .h file.
>
> sparse complained about:
> CHECK arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c
> arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c:21:15: warning: symbol 'backup_dest' was not declared. Should it be static?
> arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c:22:15: warning: symbol 'backup_src' was not declared. Should it be static?
> arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c:23:15: warning: symbol 'backup_sz' was not declared. Should it be static?
> arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c:25:4: warning: symbol 'sha256_digest' was not declared. Should it be static?
> arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c:27:19: warning: symbol 'sha_regions' was not declared. Should it be static?
> arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c:42:5: warning: symbol 'verify_sha256_digest' was not declared. Should it be static?
> arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c:61:6: warning: symbol 'purgatory' was not declared. Should it be static?
> CC arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.o
>
> Numerous sparse messages regarding functions not being declared, these
> functions are resolved via kexec_purgatory_get_set_symbol() and not
> directly called anywhere. To resolve the sparse issues appropriate
> declarations were added in a dedicated purgatory.h file.
>
> Patch was compile tested with: x86_64_defconfig (implies CONFIG_KEXEC=y)
>
> Patch is against 4.10-rc2 (localversion-next is next-20170106)
>
> arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c | 6 +-----
> arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.h
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c b/arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c
> index 25e068b..9420fe5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c
> @@ -12,11 +12,7 @@
>
> #include "sha256.h"
> #include "../boot/string.h"
> -
> -struct sha_region {
> - unsigned long start;
> - unsigned long len;
> -};
> +#include "purgatory.h"
>
> unsigned long backup_dest = 0;
> unsigned long backup_src = 0;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.h b/arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..2754e83
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
> +#ifndef BOOT_PURGATORY_H
> +#define BOOT_PURGATORY_H
> +
> +/* This is really just to make sparse happy.
> + * Declaring it all static as sparse suggests is not an option as,
> + * the symbol information is needed. see kexec_purgatory_get_set_symbol()
> + * Technically these prototype and extern declarations are unnecessary
> + */
> +void purgatory(void);
> +int verify_sha256_digest(void);
> +
> +extern unsigned long backup_dest;
> +extern unsigned long backup_src;
> +extern unsigned long backup_sz;
> +
> +struct sha_region {
> + unsigned long start;
> + unsigned long len;
> +};
> +
> +extern u8 sha256_digest[];
> +extern struct sha_region sha_regions[];
> +
> +#endif
> --
> 2.1.4
>

Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
Dave