linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] modpost: file2alias: check prototype of handler

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Message-Id: <1542860922-9730-2-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Date:   Thu, 22 Nov 2018 13:28:42 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
        Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] modpost: file2alias: check prototype of handler

Use specific prototype instead of an opaque pointer so that the
compiler can catch incompatible pointer type.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
---

 scripts/mod/file2alias.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
index 7e4aede..a37af7d 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ typedef struct {
 struct devtable {
 	const char *device_id; /* name of table, __mod_<name>__*_device_table. */
 	unsigned long id_size;
-	void *function;
+	int (*do_entry)(const char *filename, void *symval, char *alias);
 };
 
 /* Define a variable f that holds the value of field f of struct devid
@@ -1299,12 +1299,11 @@ static bool sym_is(const char *name, unsigned namelen, const char *symbol)
 static void do_table(void *symval, unsigned long size,
 		     unsigned long id_size,
 		     const char *device_id,
-		     void *function,
+		     int (*do_entry)(const char *filename, void *symval, char *alias),
 		     struct module *mod)
 {
 	unsigned int i;
 	char alias[500];
-	int (*do_entry)(const char *, void *entry, char *alias) = function;
 
 	device_id_check(mod->name, device_id, size, id_size, symval);
 	/* Leave last one: it's the terminator. */
@@ -1420,7 +1419,7 @@ void handle_moddevtable(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *info,
 
 			if (sym_is(name, namelen, p->device_id)) {
 				do_table(symval, sym->st_size, p->id_size,
-					 p->device_id, p->function, mod);
+					 p->device_id, p->do_entry, mod);
 				break;
 			}
 		}
-- 
2.7.4