Re: [PATCH] silence warnings when building kernel/bpf/core.c with W=1

From: David Miller
Date: Sun Jul 31 2016 - 23:35:25 EST


From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 23:27:33 -0400

> Building with W=1 generates some 350 lines of warnings of the form:
>
> kernel/bpf/core.c: In function '__bpf_prog_run':
> kernel/bpf/core.c:476:33: warning: initialized field overwritten [-Woverride-init]
> [BPF_ALU | BPF_ADD | BPF_X] = &&ALU_ADD_X,
> ^~
> kernel/bpf/core.c:476:33: note: (near initialization for 'jumptable[12]')
>
> Since they come from the way we intentionally build the table, silence
> that one specific warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx>

Patch submission must use a proper subsystem prefix in their Subject lines,
as this ends up in the kernel commit shortlog.

The appropriate subsystem prefix for this patch is "bpf: "