netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] netfilter: turn NF_HOOK into an inline function

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Message-ID: <20151016164527.GA3601@salvia>
Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:45:27 +0200
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] netfilter: turn NF_HOOK into an inline function

On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 08:45:42PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A recent change to the dst_output handling caused a new warning
> when the call to NF_HOOK() is the only used of a local variable
> passed as 'dev', and CONFIG_NETFILTER is disabled:
> 
> net/ipv6/ip6_output.c: In function 'ip6_output':
> net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:135:21: warning: unused variable 'dev' [-Wunused-variable]
> 
> The reason for this is that the NF_HOOK macro in this case does
> not reference the variable at all, and the call to dev_net(dev)
> got removed from the ip6_output function. To avoid that warning now
> and in the future, this changes the macro into an equivalent
> inline function, which tells the compiler that the variable is
> passed correctly but still unused.
> 
> The dn_forward function apparently had the same problem in
> the past and added a local workaround that no longer works
> with the inline function. In order to avoid a regression, we
> have to also remove the #ifdef from decnet in the same patch.

Applied, thanks.
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