From: Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com
commit 63174f61dfaef58dc0e813eaf6602636794f8942 upstream.
Clang warns:
../kernel/extable.c:37:52: warning: array comparison always evaluates to a constant [-Wtautological-compare] if (main_extable_sort_needed && __stop___ex_table > __start___ex_table) { ^ 1 warning generated.
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 Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/892 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200219202036.45702-1-natechancellor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/extable.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/extable.c +++ b/kernel/extable.c @@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ u32 __initdata __visible main_extable_so /* Sort the kernel's built-in exception table */ void __init sort_main_extable(void) { - if (main_extable_sort_needed && __stop___ex_table > __start___ex_table) { + if (main_extable_sort_needed && + &__stop___ex_table > &__start___ex_table) { pr_notice("Sorting __ex_table...\n"); sort_extable(__start___ex_table, __stop___ex_table); }