Re: [PATCH] staging: vchiq_arm: mark vchiq_platform_init() static

[Florian Fainelli]

On 5/16/23 13:25, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> This function has no callers from other files, and the declaration
> was removed a while ago, causing a W=1 warning:
>
> drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c:465:5: error: no previous prototype for 'vchiq_platform_init'
>
> Marking it static solves this problem but introduces a new warning
> since gcc determines that 'g_fragments_base' is never initialized
> in some kernel configurations:
>
> In file included from include/linux/string.h:254,
>                   from include/linux/bitmap.h:11,
>                   from include/linux/cpumask.h:12,
>                   from include/linux/mm_types_task.h:14,
>                   from include/linux/mm_types.h:5,
>                   from include/linux/buildid.h:5,
>                   from include/linux/module.h:14,
>                   from drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c:8:
> In function 'memcpy_to_page',
>      inlined from 'free_pagelist' at drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c:433:4:
> include/linux/fortify-string.h:57:33: error: argument 2 null where non-null expected [-Werror=nonnull]
> include/linux/highmem.h:427:9: note: in expansion of macro 'memcpy'
>    427 |         memcpy(to + offset, from, len);
>        |         ^~~~~~
>
> Add a NULL pointer check for this in addition to the static annotation
> to avoid both.
>
> Fixes: 89cc4218f640 ("staging: vchiq_arm: drop unnecessary declarations")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Florian

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