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authorMiguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>2019-08-02 12:37:56 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-08-06 18:29:42 +0200
commitfe5844365ec6c4d61838f289926f4d55da94d2fb (patch)
tree01907d7625db83ad6c8c01f6277fbe4f40a07148
parent0b326994892a2f8ed76cd4867c3aebcec9e6b54d (diff)
Backport minimal compiler_attributes.h to support GCC 9
This adds support for __copy to v4.9.y so that we can use it in init/exit_module to avoid -Werror=missing-attributes errors on GCC 9. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/259986242.BvXPX32bHu@devpool35/ Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Suggested-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compiler.h16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 3050de0dac96..0020ee1cab37 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -54,6 +54,22 @@ extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
#ifdef __KERNEL__
+/*
+ * Minimal backport of compiler_attributes.h to add support for __copy
+ * to v4.9.y so that we can use it in init/exit_module to avoid
+ * -Werror=missing-attributes errors on GCC 9.
+ */
+#ifndef __has_attribute
+# define __has_attribute(x) __GCC4_has_attribute_##x
+# define __GCC4_has_attribute___copy__ 0
+#endif
+
+#if __has_attribute(__copy__)
+# define __copy(symbol) __attribute__((__copy__(symbol)))
+#else
+# define __copy(symbol)
+#endif
+
#ifdef __GNUC__
#include <linux/compiler-gcc.h>
#endif