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Message-ID: <CANiq72mcSYZK6QNBf6Skw7zv5Qu31evGs_fZTAzifFS1mkHOoA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:11:59 +0100
From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: New warnings with gcc9
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 6:17 PM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Laura,
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:27 PM Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> > There's also some missing attribute warnings. The majority are caused by a
> > missing attribute in module_init/module_exit
> >
> > BUILDSTDERR: In file included from drivers/scsi/hptiop.c:18:
> > BUILDSTDERR: ./include/linux/module.h:132:6: warning: 'init_module' specifies less restrictive attribute than its target 'hptiop_module_init': 'cold' [-Wmissing-attributes]
> > BUILDSTDERR: 132 | int init_module(void) __attribute__((alias(#initfn)));
> > BUILDSTDERR: | ^~~~~~~~~~~
> > BUILDSTDERR: drivers/scsi/hptiop.c:1704:1: note: in expansion of macro 'module_init'
> > BUILDSTDERR: 1704 | module_init(hptiop_module_init);
> > BUILDSTDERR: | ^~~~~~~~~~~
> > BUILDSTDERR: drivers/scsi/hptiop.c:1692:19: note: 'init_module' target declared here
> > BUILDSTDERR: 1692 | static int __init hptiop_module_init(void)
> > BUILDSTDERR: |
>
> I have been discussing these new -Wmissing-attributes warnings with
> the author, Martin Sebor. There is a new copy() attribute that we may
> take advantage of, but I will send the patch I have since you already
> found this :-)
Sent -- since someone asked me for it, here it is the reference:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190123173707.GA16603@gmail.com/
Cheers,
Miguel
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