linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] Silence some instances of -Wtautological-compare and enable globally

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Date:   Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:03:32 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Silence some instances of -Wtautological-compare
 and enable globally

On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:54:17 -0700 Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> This patch series aims to silence some instances of clang's
> -Wtautological-compare that are not problematic and enable it globally
> for the kernel because it has a bunch of subwarnings that can find real
> bugs in the kernel such as
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200116222658.5285-1-natechancellor@gmail.com/
> and https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42666, which was specifically
> requested by Dmitry.
> 
> The first patch adds a macro that casts the section variables to
> unsigned long (uintptr_t), which silences the warning and adds
> documentation.
> 
> Patches two through four silence the warning in the places I have
> noticed it across all of my builds with -Werror, including arm, arm64,
> and x86_64 defconfig/allmodconfig/allyesconfig. There might still be
> more lurking but those will have to be teased out over time.
> 
> Patch six finally enables the warning, while leaving one of the
> subwarnings disabled because it is rather noisy and somewhat pointless
> for the kernel, where core kernel code is expected to build and run with
> many different configurations where variable types can be different
> sizes.
> 

For some reason none of these patches apply.  Not sure why - prehaps
something in the diff headers.

Anyway, the kmemleak.c code has recently changed in ways which impact
these patches.  Please take a look at that, redo, retest and resend?