Re: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] kasan: Add a prototype of task_struct to avoid warning

[Masami Hiramatsu]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:06:34 +0300
Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 02/13/2017 05:28 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > Add a prototype of task_struct to fix below warning on arm64.
> > 
> >   CC      arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.o
> > In file included from /tmp/linux/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c:19:0:
> > /tmp/linux/include/linux/kasan.h:81:53: warning: 'struct task_struct' declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
> >  static inline void kasan_unpoison_task_stack(struct task_struct *task) {}
> >                                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 
> What tree is that?
> I can't see how is this possible on upstream or -next. kasan.h includes linux/sched.h so it supposed to know about task_struct.
> Also <linux/kasan.h> is the first include in kprobes, so it can't be a header recursion.

Ah, sorry, I used a bit older -tip tree. I confirmed it was solved.

> 
> BTW, arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c no longer needs <linux/kasan.h> since
> commit ad05711cec12131e1277ce749a99d08ecf233aa7 ("arm64: Remove stack duplicating code from jprobes")

OK, thank you for checking. Please drop this.

>     
> 
> > As same as other types (kmem_cache, page, and vm_struct)
> > this adds a prototype of task_struct data structure on
> > top of kasan.h.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/kasan.h |    1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/kasan.h b/include/linux/kasan.h
> > index 820c0ad..c9df9e1 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/kasan.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/kasan.h
> > @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
> >  struct kmem_cache;
> >  struct page;
> >  struct vm_struct;
> > +struct task_struct;
> >  
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN
> >  
> > 


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>