Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] nvmem: Add driver for the eeprom in qnap-mcu controllers

From: kernel test robot
Date: Mon Nov 03 2025 - 18:02:45 EST


Hi Heiko,

kernel test robot noticed the following build errors:

[auto build test ERROR on lee-leds/for-leds-next]
[also build test ERROR on lee-mfd/for-mfd-next lee-mfd/for-mfd-fixes linus/master v6.18-rc4 next-20251103]
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url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Heiko-Stuebner/nvmem-Add-driver-for-the-eeprom-in-qnap-mcu-controllers/20251103-004523
base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/leds.git for-leds-next
patch link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251102163955.294427-2-heiko%40sntech.de
patch subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] nvmem: Add driver for the eeprom in qnap-mcu controllers
config: hexagon-allmodconfig (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20251104/202511040659.c2R6OqbJ-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: clang version 17.0.6 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 6009708b4367171ccdbf4b5905cb6a803753fe18)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20251104/202511040659.c2R6OqbJ-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202511040659.c2R6OqbJ-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> drivers/nvmem/qnap-mcu-eeprom.c:28:10: error: call to undeclared function 'kzalloc'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
28 | reply = kzalloc(bytes + sizeof(cmd), GFP_KERNEL);
| ^
>> drivers/nvmem/qnap-mcu-eeprom.c:28:8: error: incompatible integer to pointer conversion assigning to 'u8 *' (aka 'unsigned char *') from 'int' [-Wint-conversion]
28 | reply = kzalloc(bytes + sizeof(cmd), GFP_KERNEL);
| ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> drivers/nvmem/qnap-mcu-eeprom.c:45:2: error: call to undeclared function 'kfree'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
45 | kfree(reply);
| ^
3 errors generated.


vim +/kzalloc +28 drivers/nvmem/qnap-mcu-eeprom.c

20
21 static int qnap_mcu_eeprom_read_block(struct qnap_mcu *mcu, unsigned int offset,
22 void *val, size_t bytes)
23 {
24 const u8 cmd[] = { 0xf7, 0xa1, offset, bytes };
25 u8 *reply;
26 int ret = 0;
27
> 28 reply = kzalloc(bytes + sizeof(cmd), GFP_KERNEL);
29 if (!reply)
30 return -ENOMEM;
31
32 ret = qnap_mcu_exec(mcu, cmd, sizeof(cmd), reply, bytes + sizeof(cmd));
33 if (ret)
34 goto out;
35
36 /* First bytes must mirror the sent command */
37 if (memcmp(cmd, reply, sizeof(cmd))) {
38 ret = -EIO;
39 goto out;
40 }
41
42 memcpy(val, reply + sizeof(cmd), bytes);
43
44 out:
> 45 kfree(reply);
46 return ret;
47 }
48

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