[PATCH] rust: bug: fix `dead_code` warning in `warn_on!`
Miguel Ojeda
ojeda at kernel.org
Fri Aug 7 15:14:29 PDT 2026
On arm and loongarch64, or under `CONFIG_BUG=n`, the upcoming SRCU
abstractions from commit
59cf3a5bda61 ("rust: sync: add SRCU abstraction")
use `warn_on!`, which in turn warns:
error: constant `WARN_ON_FLAGS` is never used
--> rust/kernel/bug.rs:126:19
|
126 | const WARN_ON_FLAGS: u32 = $crate::bug::bugflag_taint($crate::bindings::TAINT_WARN);
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
::: rust/kernel/sync/srcu.rs:106:12
|
106 | if crate::warn_on!(
| ____________-
107 | | // SAFETY: By the type invariants, `self` contains a valid and pinned `struct srcu_struct`
108 | | // and `srcu_readers_active()` only checks the active reader count.
109 | | unsafe { bindings::srcu_readers_active(ptr) }
110 | | ) {
| |_________- in this macro invocation
|
= note: `-D dead-code` implied by `-D warnings`
= help: to override `-D warnings` add `#[allow(dead_code)]`
= note: this error originates in the macro `crate::warn_on` (in Nightly builds, run with -Z macro-backtrace for more info)
The reason is that `warn_flags!` discards both arguments in those cases,
and so the `const` becomes unused. And since it is a macro, it went
unnoticed so far.
Thus fix it by simplifying by removing the `const`.
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Fixes: dff64b072708 ("rust: Add warn_on macro")
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda at kernel.org>
---
Either this or adding an underscore.
rust/kernel/bug.rs | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/rust/kernel/bug.rs b/rust/kernel/bug.rs
index ed943960f851..874adb93cdfe 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/bug.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/bug.rs
@@ -123,9 +123,10 @@ macro_rules! warn_on {
const _COND_STR: &str = file!();
if cond {
- const WARN_ON_FLAGS: u32 = $crate::bug::bugflag_taint($crate::bindings::TAINT_WARN);
-
- $crate::warn_flags!(_COND_STR, WARN_ON_FLAGS);
+ $crate::warn_flags!(
+ _COND_STR,
+ $crate::bug::bugflag_taint($crate::bindings::TAINT_WARN)
+ );
}
cond
}};
base-commit: dc01dfb37b34beeefcfe1c3055364d41a4070c7e
--
2.55.0
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