linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc/ptrace: fix empty-body warning

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Message-ID: <87d0pys6v8.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au>
Date:   Wed, 19 Dec 2018 11:22:19 +1100
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>
Cc:     Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/ptrace: fix empty-body warning

Hi Mathieu,

Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org> writes:
> In commit a225f1567405 ("powerpc/ptrace: replace ptrace_report_syscall()
> with a tracehook call") an empty body if(); was added.
>
> Replace ; with {} to remove a warning (treated as error) reported by gcc
> using W=1:
>
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c: In function ‘do_syscall_trace_enter’:
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:3281:4: error: suggest braces around empty body in an ‘if’ statement [-Werror=empty-body]
>
> Fixes: a225f1567405 ("powerpc/ptrace: replace ptrace_report_syscall() with a tracehook call")
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>

Thanks for the fix, but this code is being refactored already in next,
see:

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1014179/

cheers