[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.19 17/29] um: Cleanup compiler warning in arch/x86/um/tls_32.c

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Sun Oct 2 15:49:10 PDT 2022


From: Lukas Straub <lukasstraub2 at web.de>

[ Upstream commit d27fff3499671dc23a08efd01cdb8b3764a391c4 ]

arch.tls_array is statically allocated so checking for NULL doesn't
make sense. This causes the compiler warning below.

Remove the checks to silence these warnings.

../arch/x86/um/tls_32.c: In function 'get_free_idx':
../arch/x86/um/tls_32.c:68:13: warning: the comparison will always evaluate as 'true' for the address of 'tls_array' will never be NULL [-Waddress]
   68 |         if (!t->arch.tls_array)
      |             ^
In file included from ../arch/x86/um/asm/processor.h:10,
                 from ../include/linux/rcupdate.h:30,
                 from ../include/linux/rculist.h:11,
                 from ../include/linux/pid.h:5,
                 from ../include/linux/sched.h:14,
                 from ../arch/x86/um/tls_32.c:7:
../arch/x86/um/asm/processor_32.h:22:31: note: 'tls_array' declared here
   22 |         struct uml_tls_struct tls_array[GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES];
      |                               ^~~~~~~~~
../arch/x86/um/tls_32.c: In function 'get_tls_entry':
../arch/x86/um/tls_32.c:243:13: warning: the comparison will always evaluate as 'true' for the address of 'tls_array' will never be NULL [-Waddress]
  243 |         if (!t->arch.tls_array)
      |             ^
../arch/x86/um/asm/processor_32.h:22:31: note: 'tls_array' declared here
   22 |         struct uml_tls_struct tls_array[GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES];
      |                               ^~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Lukas Straub <lukasstraub2 at web.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org> # build-tested
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/um/tls_32.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/um/tls_32.c b/arch/x86/um/tls_32.c
index ac8eee093f9c..66162eafd8e8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/um/tls_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/um/tls_32.c
@@ -65,9 +65,6 @@ static int get_free_idx(struct task_struct* task)
 	struct thread_struct *t = &task->thread;
 	int idx;
 
-	if (!t->arch.tls_array)
-		return GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN;
-
 	for (idx = 0; idx < GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES; idx++)
 		if (!t->arch.tls_array[idx].present)
 			return idx + GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN;
@@ -240,9 +237,6 @@ static int get_tls_entry(struct task_struct *task, struct user_desc *info,
 {
 	struct thread_struct *t = &task->thread;
 
-	if (!t->arch.tls_array)
-		goto clear;
-
 	if (idx < GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN || idx > GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MAX)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-- 
2.35.1




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