[PATCH] powerpc: arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c - cleanup warnings

heying (H) heying24 at huawei.com
Wed Mar 17 14:37:45 AEDT 2021


Thank you for your reply.


在 2021/3/17 11:04, Daniel Axtens 写道:
> Hi He Ying,
>
> Thank you for this patch.
>
> I'm not sure what the precise rules for Fixes are, but I wonder if this
> should have:
>
> Fixes: 9a32a7e78bd0 ("powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses")
> Fixes: f79643787e0a ("powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry")

Is that necessary for warning cleanups? I thought 'Fixes' tags are 
needed only for

bugfix patches. Can someone tell me whether I am right?

>
> Those are the commits that added the entry_flush and uaccess_flush
> symbols. Perhaps one for rfi_flush too but I'm not sure what commit
> introduced that.
>
> Kind regards,
> Daniel
>
>> warning: symbol 'rfi_flush' was not declared.
>> warning: symbol 'entry_flush' was not declared.
>> warning: symbol 'uaccess_flush' was not declared.
>> We found warnings above in arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c by using
>> sparse tool.
>>
>> Define 'entry_flush' and 'uaccess_flush' as static because they are not
>> referenced outside the file. Include asm/security_features.h in which
>> 'rfi_flush' is declared.
>>
>> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci at huawei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: He Ying <heying24 at huawei.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 5 +++--
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
>> index 560ed8b975e7..f92d72a7e7ce 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
>> @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
>>   #include <asm/early_ioremap.h>
>>   #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
>>   #include <asm/asm-prototypes.h>
>> +#include <asm/security_features.h>
>>   
>>   #include "setup.h"
>>   
>> @@ -949,8 +950,8 @@ static bool no_rfi_flush;
>>   static bool no_entry_flush;
>>   static bool no_uaccess_flush;
>>   bool rfi_flush;
>> -bool entry_flush;
>> -bool uaccess_flush;
>> +static bool entry_flush;
>> +static bool uaccess_flush;
>>   DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(uaccess_flush_key);
>>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(uaccess_flush_key);
>>   
>> -- 
>> 2.17.1
> .


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