linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.7 53/69] ceph: fix symbol versioning for ceph_monc_do

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Message-Id: <20160928090447.318966618@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:05:35 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
        Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.7 53/69] ceph: fix symbol versioning for ceph_monc_do_statfs

4.7-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

commit a0f2b65275413b3438e9f55b1427273cd893c3b2 upstream.

The genksyms helper in the kernel cannot parse a type definition
like "typeof(((type *)0)->keyfld)" that is used in the DEFINE_RB_FUNCS
helper, causing the following EXPORT_SYMBOL() statement to be ignored
when computing the crcs, and triggering a warning about this:

WARNING: "ceph_monc_do_statfs" [fs/ceph/ceph.ko] has no CRC

To work around the problem, we can rewrite the type to reference
an undefined 'extern' symbol instead of a NULL pointer. This is
evidently ok for genksyms, and it no longer complains about the
line when calling it with 'genksyms -w'.

I've looked briefly into extending genksyms instead, but it seems
really hard to do. Jan Beulich introduced basic support for 'typeof'
a while ago in dc53324060f3 ("genksyms: fix typeof() handling"),
but that is not sufficient for the expression we have here.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Fixes: fcd00b68bbe2 ("libceph: DEFINE_RB_FUNCS macro")
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/ceph/libceph.h |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/linux/ceph/libceph.h
+++ b/include/linux/ceph/libceph.h
@@ -214,8 +214,9 @@ static void erase_##name(struct rb_root
 }
 
 #define DEFINE_RB_LOOKUP_FUNC(name, type, keyfld, nodefld)		\
+extern type __lookup_##name##_key;					\
 static type *lookup_##name(struct rb_root *root,			\
-			   typeof(((type *)0)->keyfld) key)		\
+			   typeof(__lookup_##name##_key.keyfld) key)	\
 {									\
 	struct rb_node *n = root->rb_node;				\
 									\