Re: [PATCH net] tcp: Fix -Wc23-extensions in tcp_options_write()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Nov 03 2023 - 04:22:20 EST


On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 01:23:35PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Clang warns (or errors with CONFIG_WERROR=y) when CONFIG_TCP_AO is set:
>
> net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:663:2: error: label at end of compound statement is a C23 extension [-Werror,-Wc23-extensions]
> 663 | }
> | ^
> 1 error generated.
>
> On earlier releases (such as clang-11, the current minimum supported
> version for building the kernel) that do not support C23, this was a
> hard error unconditionally:
>
> net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:663:2: error: expected statement
> }
> ^
> 1 error generated.
>
> Add a semicolon after the label to create an empty statement, which
> resolves the warning or error for all compilers.

Can you please just split the A0 handlig into a separate helper, which
shuld make the whole thing a lot cleaner?