powerpc: io-defs.h:43:1: error: performing pointer arithmetic on a null pointer has undefined behavior [-Werror,-Wnull-pointer-arithmetic]

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Apr 16 22:44:30 AEST 2024


On Tue, Apr 16, 2024, at 14:42, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 01:55:57PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024, at 13:01, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> > On Tue, Apr 16, 2024, at 11:32, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
>> >> The Powerpc clang builds failed due to following warnings / errors on the
>> >> Linux next-20240416 tag.
>> >>
>> >> Powerpc:
>> >>  - tqm8xx_defconfig + clang-17 - Failed
>> >>  - allnoconfig + clang-17 - Failed
>> >>  - tinyconfig + clang-17 - Failed
>> >>
>> >> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft at linaro.org>
>> >
>> > I'm not sure why this showed up now, but there is a series from
>> > in progress that will avoid this in the future, as the same
>> > issue is present on a couple of other architectures.
>> >
>> 
>> I see now, it was introduced by my patch to turn on -Wextra
>> by default. I had tested that patch on all architectures
>> with allmodconfig and defconfig, but I did not test any
>> powerpc configs with PCI disabled.
>
> I think this warning is clang specific as well...  (Maybe clang was
> included in all architectures but I'm not sure).

Yes, I did test with both gcc and clang where supported.

     Arnd


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