netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] mdio, phy: fix -Wshadow warnings triggered by nested container

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jan 2021 11:48:46 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mdio, phy: fix -Wshadow warnings triggered by
 nested container_of()

On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:21:35 +0100 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 04:13:22PM +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > container_of() macro hides a local variable '__mptr' inside. This
> > becomes a problem when several container_of() are nested in each
> > other within single line or plain macros.
> > As C preprocessor doesn't support generating random variable names,
> > the sole solution is to avoid defining macros that consist only of
> > container_of() calls, or they will self-shadow '__mptr' each time:
> > 
> > In file included from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:10,
> >                  from drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c:12:
> > drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c: In function ‘phy_device_release’:
> > ./include/linux/kernel.h:693:8: warning: declaration of ‘__mptr’ shadows a previous local [-Wshadow]
> >   693 |  void *__mptr = (void *)(ptr);     \
> >       |        ^~~~~~
> > ./include/linux/phy.h:647:26: note: in expansion of macro ‘container_of’
> >   647 | #define to_phy_device(d) container_of(to_mdio_device(d), \
> >       |                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> > ./include/linux/mdio.h:52:27: note: in expansion of macro ‘container_of’
> >    52 | #define to_mdio_device(d) container_of(d, struct mdio_device, dev)
> >       |                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> > ./include/linux/phy.h:647:39: note: in expansion of macro ‘to_mdio_device’
> >   647 | #define to_phy_device(d) container_of(to_mdio_device(d), \
> >       |                                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c:217:8: note: in expansion of macro ‘to_phy_device’
> >   217 |  kfree(to_phy_device(dev));
> >       |        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > ./include/linux/kernel.h:693:8: note: shadowed declaration is here
> >   693 |  void *__mptr = (void *)(ptr);     \
> >       |        ^~~~~~
> > ./include/linux/phy.h:647:26: note: in expansion of macro ‘container_of’
> >   647 | #define to_phy_device(d) container_of(to_mdio_device(d), \
> >       |                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> > drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c:217:8: note: in expansion of macro ‘to_phy_device’
> >   217 |  kfree(to_phy_device(dev));
> >       |        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > 
> > As they are declared in header files, these warnings are highly
> > repetitive and very annoying (along with the one from linux/pci.h).
> > 
> > Convert the related macros from linux/{mdio,phy}.h to static inlines
> > to avoid self-shadowing and potentially improve bug-catching.
> > No functional changes implied.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>  
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

Applied, thanks!