linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] probes updates for v6.10

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Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 19:12:04 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, 
	Jonathan Haslam <jonathan.haslam@...il.com>, Kui-Feng Lee <thinker.li@...il.com>, 
	Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@...cle.com>, Ye Bin <yebin10@...wei.com>, 
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] probes updates for v6.10

On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 17:52, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Probes updates for v6.10:

Grr,

This doesn't even build right.

Yes, it builds cleanly in an allmoconfig build, which is what I did
before I pushed out.

But after pushing out, I notice that it doesn't build in more limited
configurations and with clang, because:

> Stephen Brennan (1):
>       kprobe/ftrace: bail out if ftrace was killed

This is no longer valid C code, and hasn't been for a long long while:

    void kprobe_ftrace_kill()
    {
        kprobe_ftrace_disabled = true;
    }

we require proper prototypes, not some ancient per-ANSI K&R syntax.

It turns out that gcc apparently still accepts these things, but it
really shouldn't. But with a clang build, you get a big error:

    kernel/kprobes.c:1140:24: error: a function declaration without a
prototype is deprecated in all versions of C
[-Werror,-Wstrict-prototypes]

and the reason it didn't get noticed in -next is that this commit had
apparently not *been* in linux-next.

Dammit, that's now how any of this is supposed to work.

Why was this untested crap sent to me?

              Linus