[PATCH] arm64: fix clang warning about TRAMP_VALIAS

Robin Murphy robin.murphy at arm.com
Fri Mar 18 12:11:39 PDT 2022


On 2022-03-16 18:38, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> The newly introduced TRAMP_VALIAS definition causes a build warning
> with clang-14:
> 
> arch/arm64/include/asm/vectors.h:66:31: error: arithmetic on a null pointer treated as a cast from integer to pointer is a GNU extension [-Werror,-Wnull-pointer-arithmetic]

Tangentially, all the other GNU extensions we depend on throughout Linux 
are also GNU extensions. Do we know what's special about this one?

Robin.

>                  return (char *)TRAMP_VALIAS + SZ_2K * slot;
> 
> Change the addition to something clang does not complain about.
> 
> Fixes: bd09128d16fa ("arm64: Add percpu vectors for EL1")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---
>   arch/arm64/include/asm/vectors.h | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> I see this warning on 5.17-rc8, but did not test it on linux-next,
> which may already have a fix.
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/vectors.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/vectors.h
> index f64613a96d53..bc9a2145f419 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/vectors.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/vectors.h
> @@ -56,14 +56,14 @@ enum arm64_bp_harden_el1_vectors {
>   DECLARE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(const char *, this_cpu_vector);
>   
>   #ifndef CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0
> -#define TRAMP_VALIAS	0
> +#define TRAMP_VALIAS	0ul
>   #endif
>   
>   static inline const char *
>   arm64_get_bp_hardening_vector(enum arm64_bp_harden_el1_vectors slot)
>   {
>   	if (arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0())
> -		return (char *)TRAMP_VALIAS + SZ_2K * slot;
> +		return (char *)(TRAMP_VALIAS + SZ_2K * slot);
>   
>   	WARN_ON_ONCE(slot == EL1_VECTOR_KPTI);
>   



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