Re: [PATCH 00/16] ARM: address -Wmissing-prototype warnings

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue May 16 2023 - 15:56:48 EST


On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 05:45:49PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> This addresses all arm specific warnings outside of the mach-*/ code,
> which I've submitted separately. The majority of the patches should be
> straightforward, either adding an #include statement to get the right
> header, or ensuring that an unused global function is left out of the
> build when the prototype is hidden.
>
> The ones that are a bit awkward are those that just add a prototype to
> shut up the warning, but the prototypes are never used for calling the
> function because the only caller is in assembler code. I tried to come
> up with other ways to shut up the compiler, and ideally this would be
> triggered by the 'asmlinkage' keyword as Ard suggested in the past, but
> I could not come up with a way to do this.
>
> All of the warnings have to be addressed in some form before the
> warning can be enabled by default.

Thanks! These are all long overdue. For the series:

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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