Re: [PATCH] kcsan: fix debugfs initcall return type

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 4:45 PM 'Marco Elver' via Clang Built Linux
<clang-built-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 16:10, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 04:00:08PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > clang points out that an initcall funciton should return an 'int':
> > >
> > > kernel/kcsan/debugfs.c:274:15: error: returning 'void' from a function with incompatible result type 'int'
> > > late_initcall(kcsan_debugfs_init);
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > include/linux/init.h:292:46: note: expanded from macro 'late_initcall'
> > >  #define late_initcall(fn)               __define_initcall(fn, 7)
> > >
> > > Fixes: e36299efe7d7 ("kcsan, debugfs: Move debugfs file creation out of early init")
> > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> [...]
> > >
> > Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for catching this -- it boggles my mind why gcc nor clang
> wouldn't warn about this by default...
> Is this a new clang?

It was clang-13, not sure if that made a difference.

         Arnd