Re: Many unexpected warnings with current sparse

[Steve French]

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 7:19 PM Luc Van Oostenryck
<luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 06:14:23PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> > It may be related to the following sparse make warning:
> >
> > No rule to make target
> > '/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/huge_val.h', needed by
> > 'sparse-llvm.o'
> >
> > I don't see huge_val.h in the Ubuntu 19 version of libc6-dev
>
> Yes, I've been bitten myself by this. It's fixed since a little while.
> So, just doing a clean build or removing all the deps (.*.d)
> should allow you to build sparse.
>
> I've verified the problem with asm and __inline in quota.h:
> it's autodetected by kconfig (CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE) so the exact config
> doesn't matter (only gcc's version does) but in all cases recent
> versions of sparse don't have a problem with it

Removed the dependencies and rebuilt as you suggested and it worked ...
and even better ... with the noise removed I now see two real bugs
(endian conversion missing on two lines) and only one possible problem
with sparse/gcc itself

Sparse now flags this line from one of Paulo's DFS features merged last year:

      struct smb_vol fake_vol = {0};

with

      "warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer"

What is the recommended way to initialize a struct to avoid the sparse warning?


And what about the "namespace" warnings from the fscache (cache.o)
code that now show up?  I hadn't seen those before.
Any easy way to remove them?

"WARNING: module cifs uses symbol sigprocmask from namespace
fs/cifs/cache.o: $(deps_/home/sfrench/cifs-2.6/fs/cifs/cache.o), but
does not import it."
-- 
Thanks,

Steve