Re: fs/dlm/midcomms.c:913:22: sparse: sparse: restricted __le32 degrades to integer

[Alexander Aring]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 7:46 AM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 01:41:52PM -0500, Alexander Aring wrote:
> >
> > I see also:
> >
> > fs/dlm/midcomms.c:213:1: sparse: sparse: symbol
> > '__srcu_struct_nodes_srcu' was not declared. Should it be static?
> >
>
> Why not just do this?  (Untested.  Maybe I don't understand?)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/srcutree.h b/include/linux/srcutree.h
> index cb1f4351e8ba..a164089abec4 100644
> --- a/include/linux/srcutree.h
> +++ b/include/linux/srcutree.h
> @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ struct srcu_struct {
>  #ifdef MODULE
>  # define __DEFINE_SRCU(name, is_static)                                        \
>         is_static struct srcu_struct name;                              \
> -       struct srcu_struct * const __srcu_struct_##name                 \
> +       is_static struct srcu_struct * const __srcu_struct_##name       \
>                 __section("___srcu_struct_ptrs") = &name
>  #else
>  # define __DEFINE_SRCU(name, is_static)                                        \
>

I tried it and yes it will fix the issue and introduce another one
about "is_static struct srcu_struct * const __srcu_struct_##name" is
unused ("-Wunused-const-variable").
I added a __maybe_unused after the introduced is_static and it seems
to fix the introduced issue, now it compiles and sparse is happy. I am
not sure if this is the right fix?

- Alex