From e99f9032715e5d109f3af2105e00a8a32baa3497 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guenter Roeck Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 20:52:24 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] compiler.h: Introduce absolute_pointer macro [ Upstream commit f6b5f1a56987de837f8e25cd560847106b8632a8 ] 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 Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- include/linux/compiler.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h index b8fe0c23cfff..475d0a3ce059 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -180,6 +180,8 @@ 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) \