On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 12:17 PM Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 16:19, Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 20/02/2019 10:37, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 11:34, Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> > > >> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 14:51, Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Fixes the following sparse warning: > > >>> > > >>> drivers/char/hw_random/optee-rng.c:265:35: warning: > > >>> symbol 'optee_rng_id_table' was not declared. Should it be static? > > >>> > > >> > > >> I haven't observed this warning during my normal Linux build using > > >> gcc. Is there any specific configuration you are using? > > >> > > > > > > This is a sparse warning, not GCC. You need to install it separately > > > and build with C=1 (iirc) > > > > > TBH, I wasn't aware about this sparse tool. I did install sparse and > build with C=1 option. But I could only get following such > errors/warnings for drivers/char/hw_random/optee-rng.c: > > ./arch/arm64/include/asm/lse.h:18:37: warning: Unknown escape 'l' > ./arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h:213:28: warning: Unknown escape 'o' > ./include/linux/compiler.h:194:8: error: attribute '__gnu_inline__': > unknown attribute > > But not the one mentioned in this patch. Not sure what went wrong, I see the same warning as the others. Maybe you have an outdated version of sparse that runs into unrelated issues? > > It's useful to may these symbols static just to reduce the scope and > > there is on-going work to fix these symbols up across the entire kernel > > > > Agree with this patch to make optee_rng_id_table symbol static. > Actually I was curious to know the approach used to get these type of > warnings so that they could be fixed beforehand. If you provide an 'Acked-by' or 'Reviewed-by' tag, I can apply this one on top of the other two fixes I already took. I also recommend building with 'make W=1', which enables additional warnings and found this bug in your driver: drivers/char/hw_random/optee-rng.c: In function 'get_optee_rng_data': drivers/char/hw_random/optee-rng.c:94:11: error: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Werror=type-limits] if ((ret < 0) || (inv_arg.ret != 0)) { ^ drivers/char/hw_random/optee-rng.c: In function 'get_optee_rng_info': drivers/char/hw_random/optee-rng.c:188:11: error: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Werror=type-limits] if ((ret < 0) || (inv_arg.ret != 0)) { ^ Here, you probably need to make 'ret' an 'int', and you should drop the extraneous zero-initialization for a couple of variables like that one, so gcc is able to do its job of warning about uninitialized variable Arnd