Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:21:27 -0400 (EDT) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] elf_fdpic: fix unused variable warning |
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The elf_fdpic code shows a harmless warning when built with MMU > enabled, I ran into this now that the configuration is possible > on ARM randconfig builds: > > fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c: In function 'elf_fdpic_dump_segments': > fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c:1501:17: error: unused variable 'addr' [-Werror=unused-variable]
In fact the warning appears when built *without* MMU.
> This adds another #ifdef around the variable declaration to shut > up the warning. > > Fixes: 382e67aec6a7 ("ARM: enable elf_fdpic on systems with an MMU")
This annotation is wrong as the warning goes away when CONFIG_MMU=y.
> Fixes: e6c1baa9b562 ("convert the rest of binfmt_elf_fdpic to dump_emit()")
That is the real culprit.
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
With the changelog fixed...
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
> --- > Who should pick this up? I guess it could go through either the > ARM tree that introduced the warning for ARM and contains a number > of fdpic patches, or it could go through the VFS tree.
Given the above I'd say the VFS tree.
Nicolas
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