Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] sunrpc: Fix compilation error (`make W=1`) when dprintk() is no-op

From: Chuck Lever

Date: Wed Feb 04 2026 - 13:32:32 EST


On 2/4/26 11:58 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 06:46:36PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 10:41:23AM +0100, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>> Clang compiler is not happy about set but unused variables:
>>>
>>> .../flexfilelayout/flexfilelayoutdev.c:56:9: error: variable 'ret' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>>> .../flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c:1505:6: error: variable 'err' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>>> .../nfs4proc.c:9244:12: error: variable 'ptr' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>>>
>>> Fix these by forwarding parameters of dprintk() to no_printk().
>>> The positive side-effect is a format-string checker enabled even for the cases
>>> when dprintk() is no-op.
>>
>> I'm afraid this is not end of story...
>> I received a dozen of minutes ago a new report and now I'm investigating.
>>
>> Patches 1 & 2 though are ready to go.
>
> Okay, if I'm not mistaken the only leftover is the missing tk_pid field due to
> conditional inclusion. However, if we do that unconditionally the data structure
> won't be expanded (there is a gap of 3 bytes. (Dunno about m68k, there may be
> actually +2 bytes due to 2-byte alignment.) The rest of the conditionally included
> members seem not being used in dprintk().
>
> That said, removing ifdeffery around tk_pid in struct rpc_task should fix that
> problem.
>
> If you can fold this to the patch 3, would be nice:
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
> index ccba79ebf893..0dbdf3722537 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
> @@ -95,10 +95,7 @@ struct rpc_task {
> int tk_rpc_status; /* Result of last RPC operation */
> unsigned short tk_flags; /* misc flags */
> unsigned short tk_timeouts; /* maj timeouts */
> -
> -#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS)
> unsigned short tk_pid; /* debugging aid */
> -#endif
> unsigned char tk_priority : 2,/* Task priority */
> tk_garb_retry : 2,
> tk_cred_retry : 2;
>
> Otherwise I can send a new version.

Please send a full series respin, thanks.


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Chuck Lever