[PATCH] init: fix -Wmissing-variable-declarations clang warning

From: Justin Stitt
Date: Wed Aug 30 2023 - 16:05:54 EST


When building x86/defconfig with Clang-18 I encounter the following warning:
| init/main.c:189:13: warning: no previous extern declaration for non-static variable 'envp_init' [-Wmissing-variable-declarations]
| 189 | const char *envp_init[MAX_INIT_ENVS+2] = { "HOME=/", "TERM=linux", NULL, };
| init/main.c:189:7: note: declare 'static' if the variable is not intended to be used outside of this translation unit
| 189 | const char *envp_init[MAX_INIT_ENVS+2] = { "HOME=/", "TERM=linux", NULL, };

Move the extern declaration to a header file so that the compiler can find it
when compiling init/main.c.

Add `const` qualifier to extern declaration so that the types match and
we follow the One-Definition Rule (ODR).

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1920
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Note: build-tested only.

There's a previous RFC [1] wherein the kernel test robot reported some
build errors which lead me to creating this patch which both fixes the
errors as well as the -Wmissing-variable-declarations warning.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230829-missingvardecl-init-main-c-v1-1-ddf0f1a71215@xxxxxxxxxx/

Also, get_maintainer.pl had a hard time finding folks to Cc here, not sure why.
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include/linux/initrd.h | 2 ++
init/do_mounts_initrd.c | 1 -
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/initrd.h b/include/linux/initrd.h
index f1a1f4c92ded..0114f1acbb45 100644
--- a/include/linux/initrd.h
+++ b/include/linux/initrd.h
@@ -34,4 +34,6 @@ extern unsigned long __initramfs_size;

void console_on_rootfs(void);

+extern const char *envp_init[];
+
#endif /* __LINUX_INITRD_H */
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
index 425f4bcf4b77..b35c1b0babc2 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ static void __init handle_initrd(char *root_device_name)
{
struct subprocess_info *info;
static char *argv[] = { "linuxrc", NULL, };
- extern char *envp_init[];
int error;

pr_warn("using deprecated initrd support, will be removed in 2021.\n");

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base-commit: 706a741595047797872e669b3101429ab8d378ef
change-id: 20230830-missingvardecl2-init-main-c-93dc1013ff8a

Best regards,
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Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>