linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 54/90] wireless: wext: avoid gcc -O3 warning

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Message-Id: <20200203161924.377160222@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon,  3 Feb 2020 16:19:57 +0000
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>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 54/90] wireless: wext: avoid gcc -O3 warning

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

[ Upstream commit e16119655c9e6c4aa5767cd971baa9c491f41b13 ]

After the introduction of CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3,
the wext code produces a bogus warning:

In function 'iw_handler_get_iwstats',
    inlined from 'ioctl_standard_call' at net/wireless/wext-core.c:1015:9,
    inlined from 'wireless_process_ioctl' at net/wireless/wext-core.c:935:10,
    inlined from 'wext_ioctl_dispatch.part.8' at net/wireless/wext-core.c:986:8,
    inlined from 'wext_handle_ioctl':
net/wireless/wext-core.c:671:3: error: argument 1 null where non-null expected [-Werror=nonnull]
   memcpy(extra, stats, sizeof(struct iw_statistics));
   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/string.h:5,
net/wireless/wext-core.c: In function 'wext_handle_ioctl':
arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h:14:14: note: in a call to function 'memcpy' declared here

The problem is that ioctl_standard_call() sometimes calls the handler
with a NULL argument that would cause a problem for iw_handler_get_iwstats.
However, iw_handler_get_iwstats never actually gets called that way.

Marking that function as noinline avoids the warning and leads
to slightly smaller object code as well.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200107200741.3588770-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 net/wireless/wext-core.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
index 5e677dac2a0ce..69102fda9ebd4 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
@@ -657,7 +657,8 @@ struct iw_statistics *get_wireless_stats(struct net_device *dev)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-static int iw_handler_get_iwstats(struct net_device *		dev,
+/* noinline to avoid a bogus warning with -O3 */
+static noinline int iw_handler_get_iwstats(struct net_device *	dev,
 				  struct iw_request_info *	info,
 				  union iwreq_data *		wrqu,
 				  char *			extra)
-- 
2.20.1