Re: [PATCH] net: skbuff: fix missing a __noreturn annotation warning

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Sat May 27 2023 - 05:22:21 EST


On 2023/5/27 12:00, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 19:04:09 +0800
>> Add __noreturn annotation to fix the warning:
>> net/core/skbuff.o: warning: objtool: skb_push+0x3c: skb_panic() is missing a __noreturn annotation
>> net/core/skbuff.o: warning: objtool: skb_put+0x4e: skb_panic() is missing a __noreturn annotation
>
> What arch are you using ?
>
> IIUC, BUG() should have an annotation for objtool, for
> example, __builtin_unreachable() for x86.
>
> Maybe the arch is missing such an annotation ?
>
> Also I'm curious why objtool complains about only skb_push(),
> there should be more non-inline functions that has BUG().

I'm not really sure. I was just compiling the kernel using my old gcc (GCC) 7.3.0 and saw this warning.
Maybe this warning is just false positive.

Thanks.

>
> Thanks,
> Kuniyuki
>
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> net/core/skbuff.c | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
>> index 6724a84ebb09..12b525aa4783 100644
>> --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
>> +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
>> @@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drop_reasons_unregister_subsys);
>> * Keep out of line to prevent kernel bloat.
>> * __builtin_return_address is not used because it is not always reliable.
>> */
>> -static void skb_panic(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int sz, void *addr,
>> - const char msg[])
>> +static void __noreturn skb_panic(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int sz, void *addr,
>> + const char msg[])
>> {
>> pr_emerg("%s: text:%px len:%d put:%d head:%px data:%px tail:%#lx end:%#lx dev:%s\n",
>> msg, addr, skb->len, sz, skb->head, skb->data,
>> --
>> 2.27.0
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