linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] mm/sparsemem: Fix 'mem_section' will never be NULL gcc 12 warning

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Date:   Tue,  1 Feb 2022 19:35:50 -0500
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Justin Forbes <jforbes@...hat.com>,
        Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] mm/sparsemem: Fix 'mem_section' will never be NULL gcc 12 warning

The gcc 12 compiler reports a "'mem_section' will never be NULL"
warning on the following code:

    static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr)
    {
    #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
        if (!mem_section)
                return NULL;
    #endif
        if (!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)])
                return NULL;
       :

It happens with both CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME on and off. The mem_section
definition is

    #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
    extern struct mem_section **mem_section;
    #else
    extern struct mem_section mem_section[NR_SECTION_ROOTS][SECTIONS_PER_ROOT];
    #endif

In the CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME case, mem_section obviously cannot
be NULL, but *mem_section can be if memory hasn't been allocated for
the dynamic mem_section[] array yet. In the !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
case, mem_section is a static 2-dimensional array and so the check
"!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)]" doesn't make sense.

Fix this warning by checking for "!*mem_section" instead of
"!mem_section" and moving the "!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)]"
check up inside the CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME block.

Fixes: 83e3c48729d9 ("mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y")
Fixes: 3e347261a80b ("sparsemem extreme implementation")
Reported-by: Justin Forbes <jforbes@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
---
 include/linux/mmzone.h | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index aed44e9b5d89..08517376c765 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -1390,11 +1390,9 @@ static inline unsigned long *section_to_usemap(struct mem_section *ms)
 static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
-	if (!mem_section)
+	if (!*mem_section || !mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)])
 		return NULL;
 #endif
-	if (!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)])
-		return NULL;
 	return &mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
 }
 extern size_t mem_section_usage_size(void);
-- 
2.27.0