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authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>2021-09-14 20:52:24 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-10-06 10:22:23 +0200
commit17ac1cd493e0f7c4347513126b886d7f40e3f262 (patch)
tree3581adee4a395894d6553783e84c9657032c1231
parentd7470f67b48a336af829b6abf7f89be8feec5924 (diff)
compiler.h: Introduce absolute_pointer macro
[ Upstream commit f6b5f1a56987de837f8e25cd560847106b8632a8 ] absolute_pointer() disassociates a pointer from its originating symbol type and context. Use it to prevent compiler warnings/errors such as drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/82596.c: In function 'i82596_probe': arch/m68k/include/asm/string.h:72:25: error: '__builtin_memcpy' reading 6 bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread] Such warnings may be reported by gcc 11.x for string and memory operations on fixed addresses. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compiler.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 7cabe0cc8665..bc8077e5e688 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
(typeof(ptr)) (__ptr + (off)); })
#endif
+#define absolute_pointer(val) RELOC_HIDE((void *)(val), 0)
+
#ifndef OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR
#define OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(var) barrier()
#endif