Re: [PATCH] efi: fix -Wmissing-variable-declarations warning

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 15:25, Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 2:04 AM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 00:54, Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > When building x86/defconfig with Clang-18 I encounter the following warnings:
> > > | arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c:934:23: warning: no previous extern declaration for non-static variable 'efi_attr_fw_vendor' [-Wmissing-variable-declarations]
> > > |   934 | struct kobj_attribute efi_attr_fw_vendor = __ATTR_RO(fw_vendor);
> > > | arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c:935:23: warning: no previous extern declaration for non-static variable 'efi_attr_runtime' [-Wmissing-variable-declarations]
> > > |   935 | struct kobj_attribute efi_attr_runtime = __ATTR_RO(runtime);
> > > | arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c:936:23: warning: no previous extern declaration for non-static variable 'efi_attr_config_table' [-Wmissing-variable-declarations]
> > > |   936 | struct kobj_attribute efi_attr_config_table = __ATTR_RO(config_table);
> > >
> > > These variables are not externally declared anywhere (AFAIK)
> >
> > They are:
> >
> > drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c:extern __weak struct kobj_attribute
> > efi_attr_fw_vendor;
> > drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c:extern __weak struct kobj_attribute efi_attr_runtime;
> > drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c:extern __weak struct kobj_attribute
> > efi_attr_config_table;
> >
> > > so let's add the static keyword and ensure we follow the ODR.
>
> > This won't work.
> >
> > Those variables are referenced via weak references in generic code.
> > The idea is that the weak references resolve to NULL pointers on
> > architectures other than x86, terminating the array early and hiding
> > the non-existent variables.
> >
> > Making them static in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c means that these
> > references will remain unsatisfied, and so the variables will no
> > longer be exposed on x86 either.
>
> So it means that we have no definitions in the header for these, right?
>

Indeed.

If there are better ways of fixing this that don't involve weak
references, I am also fine with that, but just moving the existing
extern declarations into linux/efi.h is probably the easiest approach
here.