Building with clang W=2 has several similar warnings drivers/accel/habanalabs/common/decoder.c:46:51: error: declaration shadows a variable in the global scope [-Werror,-Wshadow] static void dec_error_intr_work(struct hl_device *hdev, u32 base_addr, u32 core_id) ^ drivers/accel/habanalabs/common/security.h:13:26: note: previous declaration is here extern struct hl_device *hdev; ^ There is no global definition of hdev, so the extern is not needed. Searched with grep -r '^struct' . | grep hl_dev Change to an forward decl to resolve these issues drivers/accel/habanalabs/common/mmu/../security.h:133:40: error: ‘struct hl_device’ declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration [-Werror] 133 | bool (*skip_block_hook)(struct hl_device *hdev, | ^~~~~~~~~ Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/accel/habanalabs/common/security.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/accel/habanalabs/common/security.h b/drivers/accel/habanalabs/common/security.h index 234b4a6ed8bc..d7a3b3e82ea4 100644 --- a/drivers/accel/habanalabs/common/security.h +++ b/drivers/accel/habanalabs/common/security.h @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ #include <linux/io-64-nonatomic-lo-hi.h> -extern struct hl_device *hdev; +struct hl_device; /* special blocks */ #define HL_MAX_NUM_OF_GLBL_ERR_CAUSE 10 -- 2.26.3