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authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>2021-09-15 05:52:24 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-09-15 21:04:28 +0200
commitf6b5f1a56987de837f8e25cd560847106b8632a8 (patch)
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parentLinux 5.15-rc1 (diff)
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compiler.h: Introduce absolute_pointer macro
absolute_pointer() disassociates a pointer from its originating symbol type and context. Use it to prevent compiler warnings/errors such as drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/82596.c: In function 'i82596_probe': arch/m68k/include/asm/string.h:72:25: error: '__builtin_memcpy' reading 6 bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread] Such warnings may be reported by gcc 11.x for string and memory operations on fixed addresses. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index b67261a1e3e9..3d5af56337bd 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -188,6 +188,8 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
(typeof(ptr)) (__ptr + (off)); })
#endif
+#define absolute_pointer(val) RELOC_HIDE((void *)(val), 0)
+
#ifndef OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR
/* Make the optimizer believe the variable can be manipulated arbitrarily. */
#define OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(var) \