Re: [PATCH] bpf.h: fix clang compiler warning with unpriv_ebpf_notify()

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Wed May 11 2022 - 12:03:29 EST


On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 8:58 AM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 01:36:23PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > The recent commit "bpf: Move BPF sysctls from kernel/sysctl.c to BPF core"
> > triggered 0-day to issue an email for what seems to have been an old
> > clang warning. So this issue should have existed before as well, from
> > what I can tell. The issue is that clang expects a forward declaration
> > for routines declared as weak while gcc does not.
> >
> > This can be reproduced with 0-day's x86_64-randconfig-c007
> > https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220424/202204240008.JDntM9cU-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config
> >
> > And using:
> >
> > COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross W=1 ARCH=x86_64 SHELL=/bin/bash kernel/bpf/syscall.o
> > Compiler will be installed in /home/mcgrof/0day
> > make --keep-going HOSTCC=/home/mcgrof/0day/clang/bin/clang CC=/home/mcgrof/0day/clang/bin/clang LD=/home/mcgrof/0day/clang/bin/ld.lld HOSTLD=/home/mcgrof/0day/clang/bin/ld.lld AR=llvm-ar NM=llvm-nm STRIP=llvm-strip OBJCOPY=llvm-objcopy OBJDUMP=llvm-objdump OBJSIZE=llvm-size READELF=llvm-readelf HOSTCXX=clang++ HOSTAR=llvm-ar CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-linux-gnu- --jobs=24 W=1 ARCH=x86_64 SHELL=/bin/bash kernel/bpf/syscall.o
> > DESCEND objtool
> > CALL scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
> > CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> > CC kernel/bpf/syscall.o
> > kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4944:13: warning: no previous prototype for function 'unpriv_ebpf_notify' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> > void __weak unpriv_ebpf_notify(int new_state)
> > ^
> > kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4944:1: note: declare 'static' if the function is not intended to be used outside of this translation unit
> > void __weak unpriv_ebpf_notify(int new_state)
> > ^
> > static
> >
> > Fixes: 2900005ea287 ("bpf: Move BPF sysctls from kernel/sysctl.c to BPF core")
> > Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > Daniel,
> >
> > Given what we did fore 2900005ea287 ("bpf: Move BPF sysctls from
> > kernel/sysctl.c to BPF core") where I had pulled pr/bpf-sysctl a
> > while ago into sysctl-next and then merged the patch in question,
> > should I just safely carry this patch onto sysctl-next? Let me know
> > how you'd like to proceed.
> >
> > Also, it wasn't clear if putting this forward declaration on
> > bpf.h was your ideal preference.
>
> After testing this on sysctl-testing without issues going to move this
> to sysctl-next now.

Hmm. No.
A similar patch should be in tip already. You have to wait
for it to go through Linus's tree and back to whatever tree you use.

Borislav,
did you ship it yet?