Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] arm64: remove unnecessary ifdefs around is_compat_task()

From: Leonardo Bras
Date: Mon Jan 08 2024 - 10:08:08 EST


On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 03:38:05PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2024, at 14:14, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 01:15:00AM -0300, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> > arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c:2121:25: note: each undeclared identifier is
> > reported only once for each function it appears in
> > arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c:2123:25: error: 'user_aarch32_ptrace_view'
> > undeclared (first use in this function)
> > 2123 | return &user_aarch32_ptrace_view;
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:243: arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.o]
> > Error 1
> > make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:480: arch/arm64/kernel] Error 2
> > make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:480: arch/arm64] Error 2
> > make[1]: *** [/home/mark/src/linux/Makefile:1911: .] Error 2
> > make: *** [Makefile:234: __sub-make] Error 2
> >
> > ... and looking at the code, user_aarch32_view and user_aarch32_ptrace_view are
> > both defined under ifdeffery for CONFIG_COMPAT, so that's obviously not going
> > to work...

Thanks for noticing, Mark!

>
> I suspect it's enough to remove all of the other
> "#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT" checks in this file and rely on
> dead code elimination to remove the rest, but there might
> be additional problems if some extern declarations are
> hidden in an #ifdef as well.
>
> Arnd

Sure, I sill send a v2 soon.

Thanks!
Leo

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