Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the bpf-next tree

From: Qian Cai
Date: Wed Nov 11 2020 - 09:03:35 EST


On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 12:01 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the bpf-next tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) produced this warning:
>
> kernel/bpf/btf.c:4481:20: warning: 'btf_parse_module' defined but not used [-
> Wunused-function]
> 4481 | static struct btf *btf_parse_module(const char *module_name, const
> void *data, unsigned int data_size)
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Introduced by commit
>
> 36e68442d1af ("bpf: Load and verify kernel module BTFs")
>

It loos like btf_parse_module() is only used when
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES=y, so this should fix it.

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/btf.c b/kernel/bpf/btf.c
index 0f1fd2669d69..e877eeebc616 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/btf.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/btf.c
@@ -4478,6 +4478,7 @@ struct btf *btf_parse_vmlinux(void)
return ERR_PTR(err);
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES
static struct btf *btf_parse_module(const char *module_name, const void *data, unsigned int data_size)
{
struct btf_verifier_env *env = NULL;
@@ -4546,6 +4547,7 @@ static struct btf *btf_parse_module(const char *module_name, const void *data, u
}
return ERR_PTR(err);
}
+#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES */

struct btf *bpf_prog_get_target_btf(const struct bpf_prog *prog)
{