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[5.4,219/388] mm/kmemleak.c: use address-of operator on section symbols

Message ID 20200929110021.073593237@linuxfoundation.org
State Superseded
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Series None | expand

Commit Message

Greg Kroah-Hartman Sept. 29, 2020, 10:59 a.m. UTC 
From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit b0d14fc43d39203ae025f20ef4d5d25d9ccf4be1 ]

Clang warns:

  mm/kmemleak.c:1955:28: warning: array comparison always evaluates to a constant [-Wtautological-compare]
        if (__start_ro_after_init < _sdata || __end_ro_after_init > _edata)
                                  ^
  mm/kmemleak.c:1955:60: warning: array comparison always evaluates to a constant [-Wtautological-compare]
        if (__start_ro_after_init < _sdata || __end_ro_after_init > _edata)

These are not true arrays, they are linker defined symbols, which are just
addresses.  Using the address of operator silences the warning and does
not change the resulting assembly with either clang/ld.lld or gcc/ld
(tested with diff + objdump -Dr).

Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/895
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220051551.44000-1-natechancellor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 mm/kmemleak.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 2446076633631..312942d784058 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1947,7 +1947,7 @@  void __init kmemleak_init(void)
 	create_object((unsigned long)__bss_start, __bss_stop - __bss_start,
 		      KMEMLEAK_GREY, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	/* only register .data..ro_after_init if not within .data */
-	if (__start_ro_after_init < _sdata || __end_ro_after_init > _edata)
+	if (&__start_ro_after_init < &_sdata || &__end_ro_after_init > &_edata)
 		create_object((unsigned long)__start_ro_after_init,
 			      __end_ro_after_init - __start_ro_after_init,
 			      KMEMLEAK_GREY, GFP_ATOMIC);