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Date:   Sat, 25 Jul 2020 03:09:15 +0800
From:   kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
To:     Zheng Yongjun <zhengyongjun3@...wei.com>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, rafael@...nel.org
Cc:     kbuild-all@...ts.01.org, clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Zheng Yongjun <zhengyongjun3@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: modules: remove set but not used variable
 'no_warn'

Hi Zheng,

Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on driver-core/driver-core-testing]
[also build test WARNING on staging/staging-testing linux/master linus/master v5.8-rc6 next-20200724]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch]

url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Zheng-Yongjun/drivers-modules-remove-set-but-not-used-variable-no_warn/20200721-164445
base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git 6bdb486c5a628f7a927c2658166e3a5ef1f883e7
config: x86_64-allyesconfig (attached as .config)
compiler: clang version 12.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project e0ee2288424952e0445f096ae7800472eac11249)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
        wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
        chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
        # install x86_64 cross compiling tool for clang build
        # apt-get install binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu
        # save the attached .config to linux build tree
        COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross ARCH=x86_64 

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> drivers/base/module.c:61:2: warning: ignoring return value of function declared with 'warn_unused_result' attribute [-Wunused-result]
           sysfs_create_link(&drv->p->kobj, &mk->kobj, "module");
           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   drivers/base/module.c:65:3: warning: ignoring return value of function declared with 'warn_unused_result' attribute [-Wunused-result]
                   sysfs_create_link(mk->drivers_dir, &drv->p->kobj,
                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   2 warnings generated.

vim +/warn_unused_result +61 drivers/base/module.c

    32	
    33	void module_add_driver(struct module *mod, struct device_driver *drv)
    34	{
    35		char *driver_name;
    36		struct module_kobject *mk = NULL;
    37	
    38		if (!drv)
    39			return;
    40	
    41		if (mod)
    42			mk = &mod->mkobj;
    43		else if (drv->mod_name) {
    44			struct kobject *mkobj;
    45	
    46			/* Lookup built-in module entry in /sys/modules */
    47			mkobj = kset_find_obj(module_kset, drv->mod_name);
    48			if (mkobj) {
    49				mk = container_of(mkobj, struct module_kobject, kobj);
    50				/* remember our module structure */
    51				drv->p->mkobj = mk;
    52				/* kset_find_obj took a reference */
    53				kobject_put(mkobj);
    54			}
    55		}
    56	
    57		if (!mk)
    58			return;
    59	
    60		/* Don't check return codes; these calls are idempotent */
  > 61		sysfs_create_link(&drv->p->kobj, &mk->kobj, "module");
    62		driver_name = make_driver_name(drv);
    63		if (driver_name) {
    64			module_create_drivers_dir(mk);
    65			sysfs_create_link(mk->drivers_dir, &drv->p->kobj,
    66						    driver_name);
    67			kfree(driver_name);
    68		}
    69	}
    70	

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