netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: skbuff: fix missing a _

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Message-ID: <0ab4f3ea2bd97c7067ed332c0128829f4a7ea596.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 12:28:25 +0200
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>, linmiaohe@...wei.com
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: skbuff: fix missing a __noreturn annotation warning

On Fri, 2023-05-26 at 21:00 -0700, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
> Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 19:04:09 +0800
> > Add __noreturn annotation to fix the warning:
> >  net/core/skbuff.o: warning: objtool: skb_push+0x3c: skb_panic() is missing a __noreturn annotation
> >  net/core/skbuff.o: warning: objtool: skb_put+0x4e: skb_panic() is missing a __noreturn annotation
> 
> What arch are you using ?
> 
> IIUC, BUG() should have an annotation for objtool, for
> example, __builtin_unreachable() for x86.
> 
> Maybe the arch is missing such an annotation ?
> 
> Also I'm curious why objtool complains about only skb_push(),
> there should be more non-inline functions that has BUG().

AFAICS, the BUG() macro implementation should already carry the
__noreturn annotation, via panic() or other arch-specific way.

This looks like the old toolchain not being able to
successfully/correctly propagate the annotation???

I think we can drop this patch.

Cheers,

Paolo